गन्धर्व उवाच
धनंजय निबोधेदं यन् मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि ॥
वसिष्ठं प्रति दुर्धर्षं तथामित्रसहं नृपम् ॥
कथितं ते मया पूर्वं यथा शप्तः स पार्थिवः ॥
शक्तिना भरतश्रेष्ठ वासिष्ठेन महात्मना ॥
स तु शापवशं प्राप्तः क्रोधपर्याकुलेक्षणः ॥
निर्जगाम पुराद् राजा सहदारः परंतपः ॥
gandharva uvāca
dhanaṃjaya nibodhedaṃ yan māṃ tvaṃ paripṛcchasi ||
vasiṣṭhaṃ prati durdharṣaṃ tathāmitrasahaṃ nṛpam ||
kathitaṃ te mayā pūrvaṃ yathā śaptaḥ sa pārthivaḥ ||
śaktinā bharataśreṣṭha vāsiṣṭhena mahātmanā ||
sa tu śāpavaśaṃ prāptaḥ krodhaparyākulekṣaṇaḥ ||
nirjagāma purād rājā sahadāraḥ paraṃtapaḥ ||
The Gandharva said: 'O Dhananjaya, know that which you ask me -- about Vasishtha and about the unconquerable King Amitrasaha. It was told to you by me before how that king was cursed by Shakti, son of Vasishtha, O best of the Bharatas; and he, having fallen under the power of the curse, with eyes clouded by wrath, went out from the city together with his wife.'
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here the narrative returns to its source -- to the curse that determined everything. It is telling that the key to the present [niyoga] lies in the earlier curse: the events are linked, and one cannot be understood without the other. Here it becomes clear that in destinies everything is bound by cause: the present is the fruit of the past. Thus scripture shows that to understand a deed one must know its prehistory; and the Gandharva traces the answer back to Shakti's curse, which turned the king into an instrument of calamity.