Shloka 32
The Account and Merit of Śivadūtī
with the Nāga-tīrtha at Puṣkara
विषोल्बणत्वं क्रूरत्वं दंदशूकत्वमेव च । संपादितं त्वया देव इदानीं शपसे कथं
viṣolbaṇatvaṃ krūratvaṃ daṃdaśūkatvameva ca | saṃpāditaṃ tvayā deva idānīṃ śapase kathaṃ
زہریلی درندگی، سنگ دلی اور کاٹنے والے سانپ کی فطرت—یہ سب، اے پروردگار، تیری ہی پیدا کردہ ہیں۔ پھر اب تو مجھے لعنت کیسے دیتا ہے؟
Unspecified in the provided excerpt (a subordinate being addressing a Deva/Lord in a reproachful tone).
Concept: A being protests: ‘If my nature was fashioned by a higher power, how can I be blamed?’—raising the tension between destiny (niyati) and moral responsibility.
Application: Avoid fatalism: acknowledge conditioning, but take responsibility for choices; seek purification practices rather than blaming circumstances or authority.
Primary Rasa: raudra
Secondary Rasa: karuna
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Sandhi Resolution Notes: दंदशूकत्वमेव = दन्दशूकत्वम् + एव (म् + ए → मे); विषोल्बणत्वम् समासे ‘विष’ + ‘ओल्बण’ (तीव्र) + ‘त्व’।
FAQs
It questions moral accountability: if a being’s harmful nature was caused or shaped by a higher power, on what grounds is that being punished or cursed afterward?
A tension between divine agency and individual responsibility—whether wrongdoing is self-chosen or divinely imposed, and how justice operates when causality is attributed to a deity.
It denotes a serpent’s biting disposition or snake-nature, used as a metaphor for an ingrained harmful tendency (cruel, poisonous behavior).