सुन्दोपसुन्दाव् ऊचतुः
त्रिषु लोकेषु यद् भूतं किं चित् स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
सर्वस्मान् नौ भयं न स्याद् ऋते ऽन्योन्यं पितामह ॥
पितामह उवाच
यत् प्रार्थितं यथोक्तं च कामम् एतद् ददानि वाम् ॥
मृत्योर् विधानम् एतच् च यथावद् वां भविष्यति ॥
sundopasundāv ūcatuḥ
triṣu lokeṣu yad bhūtaṃ kiṃ cit sthāvarajaṅgamam ||
sarvasmān nau bhayaṃ na syād ṛte 'nyonyaṃ pitāmaha ||
pitāmaha uvāca
yat prārthitaṃ yathoktaṃ ca kāmam etad dadāni vām ||
mṛtyor vidhānam etac ca yathāvad vāṃ bhaviṣyati ||
Sunda and Upasunda said: "Whatever being there is in the three worlds, unmoving or moving, may we have no fear of any of them, save of each other, O Grandsire." Brahma said: "What has been asked, and as it has been said -- this wish I grant you; and this form of death shall be yours accordingly."
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Here the brothers, imagining themselves inseparable, themselves place their own destruction within the boon. It is telling that, excepting only death "from each other," they took this to be their surest safeguard -- not knowing that their doom lay hidden precisely there. Here it shows how Providence works through the very choice of the proud: a clause meant as protection becomes the instrument of judgment. Thus the scripture shows the irony of fate; and their destruction lies concealed within the very boon.