Shloka 49
Adhyaya 2 — The Lineage of Garuda and the Birth of the Wise Birds: Kanka and Kandhara
नश्यतो युध्यतो वापि तावद्भवति जीवितम् ।
यावद्धातासृजत् पूर्वं न यावन्मनसेप्सितम् ॥
naśyato yudhyato vāpi tāvad bhavati jīvitam |
yāvad dhātā sṛjat pūrvaṃ na yāvan manasepsitam ||
无论将亡或正战斗，生命只延续到造命者达特利（Dhātṛ）先前所造所定的期限，绝不会如人心中所愿那般长久。
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FAQs
The verse asserts a boundary on human control: one’s lifespan is not extended by mere desire, and even extreme conditions (battle or destruction) unfold within the measure already ‘apportioned’ by the cosmic Ordainer. Ethically, it counsels sobriety—act rightly (dharma) without delusion that wish alone can override the given span of life.
This is not a direct pancalakṣaṇa datum (it does not enumerate sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita). It functions as a doctrinal (dharma/daiva) reflection that can accompany vaṃśānucarita or narrative episodes, but is best classified as philosophical instruction rather than cosmological or genealogical listing.
‘Fighting’ and ‘perishing’ symbolize the two poles of embodied experience—assertive agency and helpless dissolution—yet both remain within a higher order (ṛta/niyati). The line ‘not as long as mentally desired’ points to the limitation of kāma-driven imagination; inner mastery lies in aligning will with dharma rather than attempting to bend cosmic measure through craving.