Shloka 8

Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions

Sanskrit

दन्ताकृष्टिः प्रसुप्तानां बालानां दशनस्थितः ।

करोति दन्तसंघर्षं चिकीर्षुर्दुःसहागमम् ॥

Transliteration

dantākṛṣṭiḥ prasuptānāṃ bālānāṃ daśanasthitaḥ / karoti dantasaṃgharṣaṃ cikīrṣur duḥsahāgamam

Translation

دَنتاکِرِشٹی نامی (کُماری) سوتے ہوئے بچوں کے دانتوں میں مقیم ہو کر دانت پیسنے کا سبب بنتی ہے، ناقابلِ برداشت آفت پیدا کرنے کی نیت سے۔

Word by Word

• danta-ākṛṣṭiḥ: tooth-pulling; tooth-drawing (affliction)
• danta-ākṛṣṭiḥ: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: danta (प्रातिपदिक) + ākṛṣṭi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); Ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष): dantasya ākṛṣṭiḥ

• prasuptānām: of those who are asleep
• prasuptānām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive relation)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pra-supta (कृदन्त; √svap धातु)
• Form: Past participle (क्त/PPP), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Plural (बहुवचन); (gender per qualified noun)

• bālānām: of children
• bālānām: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bāla (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Plural (बहुवचन)

• daśana-sthitaḥ: situated in the teeth
• daśana-sthitaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण/Qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: daśana (प्रातिपदिक) + sthita (कृदन्त; √sthā धातु)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); Kta (क्त/PPP) used adjectivally; Saptamī-tatpuruṣa (सप्तमी-तत्पुरुष): daśane sthitaḥ

• karoti: does; causes
• karoti: Kriyā (क्रिया/Verbal action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: kṛ (धातु)
• Form: Laṭ-lakāra (लट्/Present), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), Prathama-puruṣa (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन)

• danta-saṃgharṣam: grinding/clashing of teeth
• danta-saṃgharṣam: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: danta (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃgharṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन); Ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष): dantānāṃ saṃgharṣaḥ

• cikīrṣuḥ: wishing to do; intending
• cikīrṣuḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण/Qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: cikīrṣu (कृदन्त; √kṛ धातु)
• Form: Desiderative participle (सन्नन्त/इच्छार्थक; -इषु), Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• duḥsaha-āgamam: an unbearable onset/attack
• duḥsaha-āgamam: Karma (कर्म/Object; understood with cikīrṣuḥ/karoti)
• Type: Noun
• Root: duḥsaha (प्रातिपदिक) + āgama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन); Karmadhāraya (कर्मधारय): duḥsahaḥ āgamaḥ

Speakers

• Teacher-narrator continuing the explanation of kumāra-effects

Verse Rasa

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Key Themes

• Dharma
• Child health motifs
• Ritualized symptom-description

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Care for dependents is a dharmic duty; the text urges attentiveness to signs of distress and prescribes culturally sanctioned responses rather than neglect.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Non-pañcalakṣaṇa applied dharma: a practical diagnostic-and-remedial subtopic.

What is the esoteric significance?

Teeth-grinding during sleep can symbolize inner agitation surfacing when conscious control is absent; naming the force externalizes it so it can be ritually ‘released’.