Shloka 47
Duryodhana Seized by Citraseṇa; Kaurava Petition to Yudhiṣṭhira (दुर्योधनापहारः / चित्रसेनगन्धर्वग्रहणम्)
यः पश्यति नरो देवान् जाग्रदू वा शयितोडपि वा । उन्माद्यति स तुक्षिप्रं तं तु देवग्रह॑ विदु:,जो मनुष्य जागते या सोतेमें देवताओंको देखता और तुरंत पागल हो जाता है, उस वष्ट देनेवाले ग्रहको 'देवग्रह” कहते हैं
yaḥ paśyati naro devān jāgrad vā śayito 'pi vā | unmādyati sa tu kṣipraṃ taṃ tu devagrahaṃ viduḥ ||
Mārkaṇḍeya nói: “Nếu một người thấy chư thiên—dù đang thức hay đang nằm ngủ—và lập tức phát cuồng, thì bậc trí nhận biết đó là ‘devagraha’, tức sự đoạt giữ của thần linh.”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Extraordinary visions of the gods, when followed by sudden loss of mental balance, are framed here not as spiritual attainment but as a dangerous affliction—‘devagraha’—warning that not every supernatural experience is auspicious or stabilizing.
Mārkaṇḍeya explains a traditional classification of a harmful condition: if someone beholds divine beings in waking or sleeping states and rapidly becomes deranged, that state is identified as ‘devagraha’, a kind of divine-induced seizure or possession.