Shloka 236

Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival

Devanagari script

सकुण्डलं तदजिनं पपात सहसा तरो: । उन बेलोंकी चोटसे बन्धन टूट गया और कुण्डलसहित वह मृगचर्म सहसा वृक्षसे नीचे जा गिरा

Transliteration

sakuṇḍalaṃ tadajinaṃ papāta sahasā taroḥ |

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana nói: “Tấm da nai ấy, vẫn còn dính khuyên tai, bỗng rơi phắt xuống khỏi cây. Bị sức va đập của những dây leo, mối buộc đứt tung, và tấm da bị buộc ấy lập tức rơi xuống—một khúc ngoặt đột ngột cho thấy những ràng buộc bên ngoài mong manh biết bao trước sức mạnh bất thần của tự nhiên.”

Word by Word

• सकुण्डलम्: with earrings
• सकुण्डलम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कुण्डल
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• अजिनम्: hide, animal-skin
• अजिनम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अजिन
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• पपात: fell
• पपात: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: पत्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Singular

• सहसा: suddenly
• सहसा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सहसा

• तरोः: from the tree
• तरोः: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तरु
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana
• tree (taru)
• deerskin (ajina)
• earring (kuṇḍala)
• creepers/vines (implied by the Hindi gloss: belā)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the suddenness with which supports and bindings can fail; it subtly points to impermanence and the vulnerability of external safeguards when conditions change unexpectedly.

What is happening in the narrative?

A deerskin (ajina), still bearing an earring (kuṇḍala), breaks free from its fastening and suddenly falls from a tree—an abrupt physical event that advances the episode by revealing or dislodging an important object.