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देवयान्य् उवाच
यदि मां धर्मकामार्थे प्रत्याख्यास्यसि चोदितः ॥
ततः कच न ते विद्या सिद्धिम् एषा गमिष्यति ॥
कच उवाच
गुरुपुत्रीति कृत्वाहं प्रत्याचक्षे न दोषतः ॥
गुरुणा चाभ्यनुज्ञातः कामम् एवं शपस्व माम् ॥
आर्षं धर्मं ब्रुवाणो ऽहं देवयानि यथा त्वया ॥
शप्तो नार्हो ऽस्मि शापस्य कामतो ऽद्य न धर्मतः ॥
तस्माद् भवत्या यः कामो न तथा स भविष्यति ॥
ऋषिपुत्रो न ते कश् चिज् जातु पाणिं ग्रहीष्यति ॥
फलिष्यति न ते विद्या यत् त्वं माम् आत्थ तत् तथा ॥
अध्यापयिष्यामि तु यं तस्य विद्या फलिष्यति ॥
वैशंपायन उवाच
एवम् उक्त्वा द्विजश्रेष्ठो देवयानीं कचस् तदा ॥
त्रिदशेशालयं शीघ्रं जगाम द्विजसत्तमः ॥
तम् आगतम् अभिप्रेक्ष्य देवा इन्द्रपुरोगमाः ॥
बृहस्पतिं सभाज्येदं कचम् आहुर् मुदान्विताः ॥
यत् त्वम् अस्मद्धितं कर्म चकर्थ परमाद्भुतम् ॥
न ते यशः प्रणशिता भागभाङ् नो भविष्यसि ॥
devayāny uvāca
yadi māṃ dharmakāmārthe pratyākhyāsyasi coditaḥ ||
tataḥ kaca na te vidyā siddhim eṣā gamiṣyati ||
kaca uvāca
guruputrīti kṛtvāhaṃ pratyācakṣe na doṣataḥ ||
guruṇā cābhyanujñātaḥ kāmam evaṃ śapasva mām ||
ārṣaṃ dharmaṃ bruvāṇo 'haṃ devayāni yathā tvayā ||
śapto nārho 'smi śāpasya kāmato 'dya na dharmataḥ ||
tasmād bhavatyā yaḥ kāmo na tathā sa bhaviṣyati ||
ṛṣiputro na te kaś cij jātu pāṇiṃ grahīṣyati ||
phaliṣyati na te vidyā yat tvaṃ mām āttha tat tathā ||
adhyāpayiṣyāmi tu yaṃ tasya vidyā phaliṣyati ||
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
evam uktvā dvijaśreṣṭho devayānīṃ kacas tadā ||
tridaśeśālayaṃ śīghraṃ jagāma dvijasattamaḥ ||
tam āgatam abhiprekṣya devā indrapurogamāḥ ||
bṛhaspatiṃ sabhājyedaṃ kacam āhur mudānvitāḥ ||
yat tvam asmaddhitaṃ karma cakartha paramādbhutam ||
na te yaśaḥ praṇaśitā bhāgabhāṅ no bhaviṣyasi ||
Devayani said: "O Kacha, if, though entreated by me, you reject me in the matter of dharma, love, and profit, then this learning of yours will not bear fruit." Kacha said: "I refuse you because you are the daughter of my teacher, and not out of any fault; and I have been released by my teacher; if you wish, then curse me. O Devayani, I, who speak according to the dharma of the sages, am cursed by you out of caprice, not out of dharma; therefore I do not deserve this curse. Therefore your wish will not be fulfilled as you desire: no sage's son will ever take your hand in marriage. As for what you have said to me — 'your learning will not bear fruit' — so let it be; but for him whom I shall teach it, the learning will bear fruit." Vaishampayana said: "Kacha, best of the twice-born, having spoken thus to Devayani, swiftly departed for the abode of the lord of the gods. The gods, headed by Indra, seeing him arrived, having honored Brihaspati, joyful, said this to Kacha: 'Since you have accomplished a most wondrous deed for our benefit, your fame shall not perish, and you shall share in our portion.'"
5a52f86765bf · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 3:49:50 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here comes the sorrowful denouement: a mutual curse. It is telling that love, when spurned, turns into a curse: Devayani, wounded by the refusal, curses Kacha — "your learning will not bear fruit"; Kacha answers in kind — "no sage's son will take your hand." A bitter lesson lies here: passion, denied what it desires, easily turns to malice; even noble Devayani yields to anger. Yet Kacha's fairness is also notable: he accepts the curse ("so let it be") while pointing out its injustice ("I am cursed out of caprice, not out of dharma"); and for that reason the curse loses part of its force — the learning will fail to bear fruit only for him (in his own use of it), while it retains its power for those he teaches. Thus dharma softens an unjust curse. Note too that Devayani's curse ("no sage's son will take your hand") foreordains her marriage to the kshatriya Yayati — and so binds this tale to the great genealogy. The verse thus shows that anger and wounded desire are poor counselors, and that what is born of passion bears bitter fruit — as Devayani's later fate will also reveal.