निशम्य तद् वचो मातुर् व्यासः परमबुद्धिमान् ॥
प्रोवाचातीन्द्रियज्ञानो विधिना संप्रचोदितः ॥
नागायुतसमप्राणो विद्वान् राजर्षिसत्तमः ॥
महाभागो महावीर्यो महाबुद्धिर् भविष्यति ॥
तस्य चापि शतं पुत्रा भविष्यन्ति महाबलाः ॥
किं तु मातुः स वैगुण्याद् अन्ध एव भविष्यति ॥
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा माता पुत्रम् अथाब्रवीत् ॥
नान्धः कुरूणां नृपतिर् अनुरूपस् तपोधन ॥
ज्ञातिवंशस्य गोप्तारं पितॄणां वंशवर्धनम् ॥
द्वितीयं कुरुवंशस्य राजानं दातुम् अर्हसि ॥
स तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय निश्चक्राम महातपाः ॥
सापि कालेन कौसल्या सुषुवे ऽन्धं तम् आत्मजम् ॥
niśamya tad vaco mātur vyāsaḥ paramabuddhimān ||
provācātīndriyajñāno vidhinā saṃpracoditaḥ ||
nāgāyutasamaprāṇo vidvān rājarṣisattamaḥ ||
mahābhāgo mahāvīryo mahābuddhir bhaviṣyati ||
tasya cāpi śataṃ putrā bhaviṣyanti mahābalāḥ ||
kiṃ tu mātuḥ sa vaiguṇyād andha eva bhaviṣyati ||
tasya tad vacanaṃ śrutvā mātā putram athābravīt ||
nāndhaḥ kurūṇāṃ nṛpatir anurūpas tapodhana ||
jñātivaṃśasya goptāraṃ pitṝṇāṃ vaṃśavardhanam ||
dvitīyaṃ kuruvaṃśasya rājānaṃ dātum arhasi ||
sa tatheti pratijñāya niścakrāma mahātapāḥ ||
sāpi kālena kausalyā suṣuve 'ndhaṃ tam ātmajam ||
Having heard that word of his mother, Vyasa, the supremely wise, possessed of transcendent knowledge, urged on by duty, said: 'He will be equal in strength to ten thousand elephants, learned, the best of royal sages, blessed, of great valor, of great intellect. And he will have a hundred sons, all mighty; but through his mother's fault he will be blind.' Hearing his word, the mother said to her son: 'A blind man is not fit to be king of the Kurus, O rich in austerity. You must give a second king to the Kuru lineage — a guardian of the kinsmen's line, an increaser of the ancestors' line.' He, promising 'so be it,' departed, the great ascetic; and that Kausalya in due time bore that blind son.
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here Vyasa foretells the birth of Dhritarashtra — mighty, wise, the father of a hundred sons, yet blind. Telling is this combination of greatness and defect: he is given almost everything — strength, intellect, learning, a hundred sons — yet his sight is taken away. Here is the subtle law of karma and conception: a single lapse of the mother (fear, closed eyes) lays a lifelong defect upon the child; so keenly does the offspring answer to the state of the parents. Telling too is the bitter foresight here: Dhritarashtra's blindness will become not only physical but spiritual — a blind attachment to his sons that will lead the line to ruin; the outward defect will prove a sign of the inward one. Here it is shown that blindness of the body is a lesser misfortune than blindness of the heart, blinded by partiality. Telling also is Satyavati's decision to ask for a second king: a blind man is unfit to rule, and so another son is needed. Thus the scripture, in showing the birth of Dhritarashtra, already sows the seed of the coming drama of the Kauravas: from this blind king and his hundred sons will come that branch whose blind thirst for power will lead to the great war.