Sukeshi’s Inquiry into Dharma: The Seven Dvipas and the Twenty-One Hells
स ताड्यमानः शिशिरांशुबाणैरवाप पीडां परमां गजेन्द्रः दुष्टश्च वेगात् पयसामधीशं मुहुर्मुहुः पादतलैर्ममर्द
sa tāḍyamānaḥ śiśirāṃśubāṇairavāpa pīḍāṃ paramāṃ gajendraḥ duṣṭaśca vegāt payasāmadhīśaṃ muhurmuhuḥ pādatalairmamarda
Bị những mũi tên của các tia lạnh bắn trúng, voi chúa chịu nỗi đau tột cùng; rồi, hung ác và giận dữ, nó liên tiếp giẫm đạp chúa tể của nước (Varuṇa) bằng lòng bàn chân.
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Pain and humiliation can provoke further cruelty when dominated by tamas/rajas; the verse warns that uncontrolled reaction to suffering multiplies harm and deepens adharma.
Vamśānucarita / narrative episode: a conflict scene illustrating the interplay of devas and powerful beings. It is not cosmogony (sarga) but an embedded legend supporting the text’s broader dharma and tīrtha-oriented teaching.
Varuṇa (waters, restraint, law) being trampled by a raging elephant dramatizes the subjugation of “order and measure” by brute force—an image of chaos overwhelming regulation until higher balance is restored.