Shloka 6
मन्दर-समुद्रमन्थन-वर्णनम् / Description of the Churning of the Ocean with Mount Mandara
ते भायें कश्यपस्यास्तां कद्रश्न विनता च ह । प्रादात् ताभ्यां वरं प्रीत: प्रजापतिसम: पति:
te bhārye kaśyapasyāstāṁ kadrūś ca vinatā ca ha | prādāt tābhyāṁ varaṁ prītaḥ prajāpati-samaḥ patiḥ ||
Wika ni Śaunaka: “Ang dalawang iyon ay mga asawa ni Kaśyapa—si Kadrū at si Vinatā. Nalugod sa kanila, si Kaśyapa, ang asawang kasingdakila ng isang Prajāpati, ay nagkaloob ng isang biyaya sa kanilang dalawa.”
शौनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Boons are ethically potent: when a powerful giver grants a wish in satisfaction, the future hinges on how wisely and responsibly the recipients frame their request; desire and intention can set long causal chains in motion.
Śaunaka identifies Kaśyapa’s two wives, Kadrū and Vinatā, and states that Kaśyapa—likened to a Prajāpati—was pleased and granted them a boon, setting up the subsequent account of what each asks for and the resulting lineages.