Shloka 57
Adhyaya 2 — The Lineage of Garuda and the Birth of the Wise Birds: Kanka and Kandhara
क्वाणाडानां पतनं विप्राः क्व घण्टापतनं समम् ।
क्व च मांसवसारक्तैर्भूमेरास्तरणक्रियाः ॥
kvāṇāḍānāṃ patanaṃ viprāḥ kva ghaṇṭāpatanaṃ samam / kva ca māṃsa-vasā-raktair bhūmer āstaraṇa-kriyāḥ
اے برہمنو، چھوٹے آṇāḍa-وں کا گرنا کہاں اور گھنٹی کے گرنے جیسی بات کہاں؟ اور گوشت، چربی اور خون سے زمین کو بچھا/ڈھانپ دینا کہاں؟
{ "primaryRasa": "raudra", "secondaryRasa": "bibhatsa", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }
FAQs
The verse uses stark disproportion as a rhetorical device: small causes cannot reasonably be equated with massive effects. By juxtaposing a minor ‘falling’ with the heavy fall of a bell, and then with the gruesome ‘covering of the earth’ in flesh, fat, and blood, it critiques exaggerated or incoherent assertions and highlights the moral weight of large-scale violence.
This verse is not directly sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita material. It fits best as ancillary didactic/narrative dialogue (upabṛṃhaṇa) rather than one of the five defining lakṣaṇas.
Symbolically, ‘bell-fall’ evokes a loud, unavoidable event (karma’s heavy consequence), while ‘carpeting the earth with flesh/fat/blood’ evokes the saturation of the world by tamas and हिंसा (violent passion). The rhetorical ‘kva…kva…’ pattern points to viveka (discernment): distinguishing the trivial from the grave, and refusing false equivalences in moral judgment.