Shloka 38
Adhyaya 2 — The Lineage of Garuda and the Birth of the Wise Birds: Kanka and Kandhara
भिन्ने कोष्ठे शशाङ्काभं भूमावण्डचतुष्टयम् ।
आयुषः सावशेषत्वात् तूलराशाविवापतत् ॥
bhinne koṣṭhe śaśāṅkābhaṃ bhūmāv aṇḍacatuṣṭayam /
āyuṣaḥ sāvaśeṣatvāt tūlarāśāv ivāpatat
Khi kho thóc bị phá bung, bốn vật giống như trứng, trắng như ánh trăng, rơi xuống đất—như một đống bông—vì chỉ còn lại một chút thời hạn sinh mệnh.
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FAQs
The verse uses a stark omen—objects falling out when a storehouse is breached—to underscore āyuḥ (lifespan) as a measurable, exhaustible allotment. The ethical pressure is toward vigilance: one should not presume continuity, but act dharmically while time remains.
This verse is not directly sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita in itself; it functions as narrative texture within vaṃśānucarita-style storytelling (episodes illustrating human fate and the consequences/portents around life and death).
The ‘four moon-white eggs’ can be read symbolically as subtle “seeds” of embodied experience (aṇḍa as germ/seed), and their falling when the ‘koṣṭha’ breaks suggests the collapse of the body-container at life’s end. The cotton-heap simile emphasizes lightness/dispersion—life’s elements scatter when the binding term (āyuḥ) is nearly spent.