वैशंपायन उवाच
ततो विवाहे निर्वृत्ते स राजा शंतनुर् नृपः ॥
तां कन्यां रूपसंपन्नां स्वगृहे संन्यवेशयत् ॥
ततः शांतनवो धीमान् सत्यवत्याम् अजायत ॥
वीरश् चित्राङ्गदो नाम वीर्येण मनुजान् अति ॥
अथापरं महेष्वासं सत्यवत्यां पुनः प्रभुः ॥
विचित्रवीर्यं राजानं जनयाम् आस वीर्यवान् ॥
अप्राप्तवति तस्मिंश् च यौवनं भरतर्षभ ॥
स राजा शंतनुर् धीमान् कालधर्मम् उपेयिवान् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
tato vivāhe nirvṛtte sa rājā śaṃtanur nṛpaḥ ||
tāṃ kanyāṃ rūpasaṃpannāṃ svagṛhe saṃnyaveśayat ||
tataḥ śāṃtanavo dhīmān satyavatyām ajāyata ||
vīraś citrāṅgado nāma vīryeṇa manujān ati ||
athāparaṃ maheṣvāsaṃ satyavatyāṃ punaḥ prabhuḥ ||
vicitravīryaṃ rājānaṃ janayām āsa vīryavān ||
aprāptavati tasmiṃś ca yauvanaṃ bharatarṣabha ||
sa rājā śaṃtanur dhīmān kāladharmam upeyivān ||
Vaishampayana said: 'Then, when the marriage was accomplished, King Shantanu brought that maiden, endowed with beauty, into his house. Then to Shantanu, by Satyavati, was born the wise hero named Chitrangada, who surpassed men in valor. Then again the lord, mighty in valor, begot upon Satyavati another son, a great archer — King Vichitravirya. And before that one had reached youth, O bull among the Bharatas, the wise King Shantanu submitted to the law of time.'
a2016e156d79 · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 4:16:46 pm UTC
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Here the marriage of Shantanu and Satyavati bears fruit — two sons, Chitrangada and Vichitravirya — but the king soon dies. It is striking how swiftly the narrative moves from wedding to death: the sons are barely born, the younger not yet come to youth, when Shantanu 'submits to the law of time' (kala-dharma). This is a reminder of impermanence: even a great and righteous king, for whose happiness so great a sacrifice was made, is himself short-lived; time carries everyone away. The very phrase 'law of time' is significant: death is not an accident but dharma, a law to which everything born is subject. Here lies a call to non-attachment: the body and its bonds are fleeting, and the wise, mindful of the inevitable hour, turn the heart to the eternal — to the Lord and to service to Him. Note too the bitter irony of fate: Bhishma's sacrifice was made for the continuation of the line through these sons, yet one will soon perish, and the other will die childless — so providence prepares an even more tangled knot, which will have to be untied by other means. Thus the scripture shows that human designs, however noble, have no power over time and death.