Shloka 25
अद्य चासौ कुदेवेन्द्रस्त्वां पदा धर्षयिष्यति । दैवोपहतचित्तत्वादात्मनाशाय मन्दधी:
adya cāsau kudevendras tvāṃ padā dharṣayiṣyati | daivopahatacittatvād ātmanāśāya mandadhīḥ ||
اور آج وہ کُدیویندر—اندر صرف نام کا—تمہیں پاؤں سے ٹھوکر مار کر بےحرمتی کرے گا۔ تقدیر نے اس کے دل و دماغ کو ماؤف کر دیا ہے؛ کندذہن ہو کر وہ اپنے ہی ہلاک کی طرف لپک رہا ہے۔
अगस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Arrogance and misuse of power lead to ethical collapse: when one becomes ‘Indra’ only in name and violates the dignity of the righteous, that very adharma becomes the cause of one’s downfall. The verse also highlights how a mind clouded (whether by fate, delusion, or moral blindness) rushes toward self-destruction.
Agastya warns that the unworthy ruler occupying Indra’s position—Nahusha in the surrounding episode—will, driven by a fate-stricken and deluded mind, commit a grave insult by striking the addressed person with his foot, an act that precipitates his ruin.