Shloka 11

कद्रू-इन्द्र-स्तुतिः तथा नागानां तापनिवृत्तिः

Kadrū’s Hymn to Indra and the Nāgas’ Distress

Devanagari script

चन्द्रवृद्धिक्षयवशादुद्वृत्तोर्मिसमाकुलम्‌ । पाञ्चजन्यस्य जननं रत्नाकरमनुत्तमम्‌,चन्द्रमाकी वृद्धि और क्षयके कारण उसकी लहरें बहुत ऊँचे उठतीं और उतरती थीं (उसमें ज्वार-भाटे आया करते थे), अतः वह उत्ताल-तरंगोंसे व्याप्त जान पड़ता था। उसीने पांचजन्य शंखको जन्म दिया था। वह रत्नोंका आकर और परम उत्तम था

Transliteration

candravṛddhikṣayavaśād udvṛttormisamākulam | pāñcajanyasya jananaṃ ratnākaram anuttamam ||

Translation

Wika ni Śaunaka: “Dahil sa pagdami at pagliit ng buwan, ang karagatan ay naging magulo, siksik sa mga alon na sumisikad. Ang dakilang minahan ng mga hiyas na iyon—walang kapantay—ang siyang nagsilang sa kabibe ng Pāñcajanya.”

Word by Word

• {'candra': 'the moon', 'vṛddhi': 'increase, waxing', 'kṣaya': 'decrease, waning', 'vaśāt': 'due to, under the influence of', 'udvṛtta': 'uplifted, swollen, surging', 'ūrmi': 'wave', 'samākula': 'filled with, crowded, agitated', 'pāñcajanya': 'the conch named Pāñcajanya (later associated with Kṛṣṇa)', 'janana': 'birth, producing, generation', 'ratnākara': 'mine of jewels

• the ocean', 'anuttama': 'unsurpassed, supreme'}

Speaker

शौनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śaunaka
• Candra (Moon)
• Ratnākara (Ocean)
• Pāñcajanya (conch)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how cosmic rhythms (the moon’s waxing and waning) govern the natural world, and it frames the ocean as a sacred, life-producing source—an image of ordered causality and auspicious origins rather than random chaos.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śaunaka describes the ocean’s tide-driven turbulence and states that from this supreme ocean arose the conch Pāñcajanya, a famed divine object later known as Kṛṣṇa’s conch.