Shloka 48
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
तामसीं भजमानायां योनिं मातर्यजायत ।
तमसा चावृते लोके तामसोऽयं भविष्यति ॥
tāmasīṃ bhajamānāyāṃ yoniṃ mātary ajāyata / tamasā cāvṛte loke tāmaso 'yaṃ bhaviṣyati
وہ ایسی ماں سے پیدا ہوا جو تامسی رحم میں داخل ہوئی تھی؛ اور چونکہ دنیا تاریکی سے ڈھکی ہوئی تھی، اس لیے وہ ‘تامس’ کہلائے گا۔
FAQs
Purāṇic naming often encodes circumstance and character: the verse ties identity to guṇa-influence and the ambient condition of the world, implying that leaders arise shaped by their time.
Manvantara-adjacent Vamśānucarita: the naming ‘Tāmasa’ helps classify the figure within the larger epochal/Manu narrative.
‘Darkness covering the world’ can symbolize collective ignorance; the emergence of a Manu-figure even in tamas hints that order can be instituted amid decline, though colored by the prevailing guṇa.