Shloka 21

Vivāha-dharma: Kanyā-pradāna, Śulka, and Pāṇigrahaṇa-niṣṭhā (अनुशासन पर्व, अध्याय ४४)

Devanagari script

कि नु तद्विस्मृतं शक्र न तनन्‍्मनसि ते स्थितम्‌ | गौतमेनासि यन्मुक्तो भगाड़कपरिचिह्वित:

Transliteration

ki nu tad vismṛtaṃ śakra na tan manasi te sthitam | gautamenāsi yan mukto bhagāṅka-paricihnitaḥ ||

Translation

毗补罗说：“噢，释迦（因陀罗）！你当真忘了那件事吗？那记忆难道不曾牢牢系在你心中？当年圣仙瞿昙在你身上刻下罪过的印记，却仍饶你性命，放你离去。”

Word by Word

• किम्: what
• किम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम्
• Form: neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• नु: indeed/then (interrogative particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नु

• तत्: that (thing/event)
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• विस्मृतम्: forgotten
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-√स्मृ
• Form: past passive participle, neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• शक्र: O Śakra (Indra)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शक्र
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• मनसि: in (your) mind
• मनसि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनस्
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• ते: of you/your
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: 2nd, genitive, singular

• स्थितम्: remained/was present
• Type: Verb
• Root: √स्था
• Form: past active participle (used adjectivally), neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• गौतमेन: by Gautama
• गौतमेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गौतम
• Form: masculine, instrumental, singular

• असि: you are
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अस्
• Form: present indicative, 2nd, singular

• यत्: which/that (fact that)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

• मुक्तः: released/spared
• Type: Verb
• Root: √मुच्
• Form: past passive participle, masculine, nominative, singular

• भगाङ्क-परिचिह्वितः: marked all over with vulva-marks (thousand marks)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परि-√चिह् (कृदन्त: परिचिह्वित) + भगाङ्क
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• इन्द्र: O Indra
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्र
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

विपुल उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vipula
• Śakra (Indra)
• Gautama (sage)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even the powerful are answerable to dharma: wrongdoing leaves consequences and public marks, and one should not forget the moral lesson of punishment tempered by mercy.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vipula rebukes Indra, reminding him of an earlier episode in which the sage Gautama punished him by branding him with marks of disgrace yet still spared his life—an appeal to Indra’s memory and conscience.