Shloka 7

Karṇa’s Counsel on Śrī

Fortune) and the Proposed Display before the Exiled Pāṇḍavas (कर्णवचनम् / श्रीप्रदर्शन-प्रस्तावः

Devanagari script

मार्कण्डेय उदाच ततो<ग्निरुपयेमे तां शिवां प्रीतिमुदायुतः । प्रीत्या देवी समायुक्ता शुक्र जग्राह पाणिना

Transliteration

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca tato 'gnir upayeme tāṃ śivāṃ prītim udāyutaḥ | prītyā devī samāyuktā śukraṃ jagrāha pāṇinā ||

Translation

مارکنڈےیہ نے کہا—اے راجن! تب اگنی دیو محبت اور مسرت سے بھر کر اُس شیوا کو زوجہ کے طور پر قبول کر کے گلے لگا لیا۔ محبت میں یکجا دیوی نے—(سواہا کے روپ میں)—اگنی سے وصال کر کے اُس کا بیج اپنے ہاتھ میں لے لیا۔

Word by Word

• मार्कण्डेयः: Markandeya
• मार्कण्डेयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्कण्डेय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• ततः: then, thereafter
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• अग्निः: Agni (Fire-god)
• अग्निः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अग्नि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उपयेमे: approached; took (as wife)
• Type: Verb
• Root: उप-या
• Form: Perfect, 3, Singular, Atmanepada

• ताम्: her
• ताम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• शिवाम्: the auspicious lady (Shivā/Svāhā)
• शिवाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिवा
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• प्रीतिम्: affection, love
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रीति
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• उदायुतः: endowed with; filled with
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उद्-आयुत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रीत्या: with love
• प्रीत्या: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रीति
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• देवी: the goddess
• देवी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• समायुक्ता: united; joined (in union)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-युज्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• शुक्रम्: semen; virile seed
• शुक्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शुक्र
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• जग्राह: took; seized
• Type: Verb
• Root: ग्रह्
• Form: Perfect, 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• पाणिना: with (her) hand
• पाणिना: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाणि
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Agni
• Śivā
• Svāhā
• śukra (Agni’s seed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical-cosmic idea that immense power (śukra/tejas) should be received and regulated through a fitting vessel and intention; when guided by proper agency, it contributes to order rather than chaos.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya narrates that Agni unites with an auspicious goddess—identified as Svāhā in the guise of Śivā—and she receives Agni’s generative essence in her hand, a detail that prepares for subsequent mythic developments involving that potency.