Shloka 27
Śoka-śamana: Kṛṣṇa’s Consolation and Nārada’s Exempla to Sṛñjaya
Chapter 29
कूर्मान् कर्कटकान् नक्रान् मकराञ्छिंशुकानपि । नदीष्वपातयद् राजन् मघवा लोकपूजित:,“राजन! लोकपूजित इन्द्रने सोनेके बने हुए बहुत-से कछुए, केकड़े, नाके, मगर, सूँस और मत्स्य उन नदियोंमें गिराये थे
kūrmān karkaṭakān nakrān makarāñ chiṁśukān api | nadīṣv apātayad rājan maghavā lokapūjitaḥ ||
وایو نے کہا—اے راجَن! جہانوں میں معزز مَغَوان (اِندر) نے انہی دریاؤں میں بہت سے کُچھوے، کیکڑے، نَکر (مگرمچھ)، مَکَر اور شِمشُک (دریائی ڈولفن) وغیرہ ڈال دیے تھے۔
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even actions performed by the powerful (including gods) have wide consequences; dharma requires awareness of how interventions in the natural and social order affect many beings, not merely the agent’s immediate aim.
Vāyu addresses a king and recounts that Indra (Maghavān), famed and worshipped, caused numerous aquatic creatures to be cast into certain rivers—an episode illustrating divine intervention in the world of living beings.