Shloka 47
Vasiṣṭhasya śokaḥ, Vipāśā–Śatadrū-nāmākaraṇam, Kalmāṣapādasya bhaya-prasaṅgaḥ (Ādi Parva 167)
या बिभर्ति परं रूप॑ यस्या नास्त्युपमा भुवि । देवदानवयक्षाणामीप्सितां देवरूपिणीम्
yā bibharti paraṁ rūpaṁ yasyā nāsty upamā bhuvi | devadānavayakṣāṇām īpsitāṁ devarūpiṇīm ||
婆罗门说道：“她具无上妙色，世间无人可比。即便诸天、达那婆与夜叉，也都渴望得到那位少女；她的美貌宛若神明。”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how extraordinary beauty can become an object of widespread desire—even among divine and semi-divine beings—implicitly pointing to the ethical tension between admiration and possessive longing.
A brāhmaṇa narrator describes a maiden of unmatched beauty on earth, emphasizing that devas, dānavas, and yakṣas all wished to obtain her, thereby setting up the stakes around her desirability and the consequences it may bring.