Shloka 15
Śaraṇāgata-Atithi-Dharma in the Kapota Narrative (कपोत-आख्यानम्—शरणागतधर्मः)
न ववर्ष सहस्राक्ष: प्रतिलोमो5भवद् गुरु: । जगाम दक्षिण मार्ग सोमो व्यावृत्तलक्षण:
na vavarṣa sahasrākṣaḥ pratilomo 'bhavad guruḥ | jagāma dakṣiṇa-mārgaṃ somo vyāvṛtta-lakṣaṇaḥ ||
Wika ni Bhīṣma: “Hindi nagpaulan si Sahasrākṣa (Indra); si Guru (Bṛhaspati) ay kumilos sa salungat na landas; at ang Buwan, na nagulo ang mga palatandaan, ay lumihis at tumahak sa daang timog.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses celestial and climatic anomalies as moral-symbolic indicators: when righteousness and proper governance decline, the world is perceived as losing harmony, and nature itself seems to mirror that imbalance through ominous signs.
Bhishma describes a sequence of ominous phenomena—Indra withholding rain, Bṛhaspati moving in a contrary/retrograde course, and the Moon taking a disturbed southward path—suggesting an atmosphere of inauspiciousness and disorder surrounding the events being discussed.