एतच् छ्रुत्वा वचस् तस्या देव्याः प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥
पृथ्वाद्यैर् भ्रातृभिः सार्धं द्यौस् तदा तां जहार गाम् ॥
तया कमलपत्राक्ष्या नियुक्तो द्यौस् तदा नृप ॥
ऋषेस् तस्य तपस् तीव्रं न शशाक निरीक्षितुम् ॥
हृता गौः सा तदा तेन प्रपातस् तु न तर्कितः ॥
अथाश्रमपदं प्राप्तः फलान्य् आदाय वारुणिः ॥
न चापश्यत गां तत्र सवत्सां काननोत्तमे ॥
ततः स मृगयाम् आस वने तस्मिंस् तपोधनः ॥
नाध्यगच्छच् च मृगयंस् तां गां मुनिर् उदारधीः ॥
etac chrutvā vacas tasyā devyāḥ priyacikīrṣayā ||
pṛthvādyair bhrātṛbhiḥ sārdhaṃ dyaus tadā tāṃ jahāra gām ||
tayā kamalapatrākṣyā niyukto dyaus tadā nṛpa ||
ṛṣes tasya tapas tīvraṃ na śaśāka nirīkṣitum ||
hṛtā gauḥ sā tadā tena prapātas tu na tarkitaḥ ||
athāśramapadaṃ prāptaḥ phalāny ādāya vāruṇiḥ ||
na cāpaśyata gāṃ tatra savatsāṃ kānanottame ||
tataḥ sa mṛgayām āsa vane tasmiṃs tapodhanaḥ ||
nādhyagacchac ca mṛgayaṃs tāṃ gāṃ munir udāradhīḥ ||
"Having heard this speech of that goddess, wishing to do her a kindness, together with his brothers -- Prithu and the rest -- Dyu then stole that cow. Urged on by that lotus-eyed wife, Dyu then, O king, could not even face the fierce austerity of that sage; the cow was stolen by him then -- but he did not consider his coming downfall. And so, arriving at the hermitage, having gathered fruits, the son of Varuna did not see the cow with her calf there in that excellent forest. Then he searched for her in that forest, he who was rich in austerity; and searching, the sage of lofty mind did not find that cow."
58bbe78d78d2 · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 4:16:46 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here the sin is committed: Dyu, together with his brothers, steals the cow to please his wife. It is telling that the fault is not his alone -- the brothers share in it, drawn along by kinship and consent; thus a sin, once begun by one, draws in many, and all will bear the curse. Here is a warning about complicity: silent or active consent to another's wrongful act makes one a partaker of its fruit. Telling too are the words "he did not consider the downfall": blinded by the wish to please, Dyu does not see the consequences -- such is the nature of passion, it clouds the mind and hides the coming reckoning. Here is seen the nature of pramada, of heedlessness: one who sins rarely weighs the fruit, for craving hurries him on. And touching is the image of Vasishtha, returning peacefully with his fruits and not finding the cow: the wrong is already done, while the righteous man still knows nothing -- innocence robbed by stealth. Thus the text shows the quiet inevitability of karma: what is stolen from a saint does not pass without consequence.