ब्राह्मण्य् उवाच
नाहं गृह्णामि वस् तात दृष्टीर् नास्ति रुषान्विता ॥
अयं तु भार्गवो नूनम् ऊरुजः कुपितो ऽद्य वः ॥
तेन चक्षूंषि वस् तात नूनं कोपान् महात्मना ॥
स्मरता निहतान् बन्धून् आदत्तानि न संशयः ॥
गर्भान् अपि यदा यूयं भृगूणां घ्नत पुत्रकाः ॥
तदायम् ऊरुणा गर्भो मया वर्षशतं धृतः ॥
brāhmaṇy uvāca
nāhaṃ gṛhṇāmi vas tāta dṛṣṭīr nāsti ruṣānvitā ||
ayaṃ tu bhārgavo nūnam ūrujaḥ kupito 'dya vaḥ ||
tena cakṣūṃṣi vas tāta nūnaṃ kopān mahātmanā ||
smaratā nihatān bandhūn ādattāni na saṃśayaḥ ||
garbhān api yadā yūyaṃ bhṛgūṇāṃ ghnata putrakāḥ ||
tadāyam ūruṇā garbho mayā varṣaśataṃ dhṛtaḥ ||
The brahmin woman said: "It is not I who take away your sight, children, nor am I possessed by anger; but this Bhargava, born from the thigh, is surely angered at you now. It is he, the great-souled one, remembering his slain kinsmen, who in wrath has taken away your eyes -- there is no doubt. For when you slew even the unborn children of Bhrigu, O sons, then I carried this child in my thigh for a hundred years."
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here retribution for the slaughter of the unborn reveals itself. It is significant that the surviving embryo, hidden by his mother for a hundred years, becomes a chastising force: the blood of Bhrigu's slain infants is exacted from their destroyers. Wrongdoing against the defenseless does not go unanswered: violence against the unborn returns as blindness upon the heads of the violent. Thus the scripture shows the inescapability of retribution; and the brahmin woman herself, free of anger, merely points to the source of the punishment -- the fiery child she had concealed.