यासौ वर्षसहस्रान्ते मूर्तिर् उत्तिष्ठते मम ॥
वरार्हेभ्यो वराञ् श्रेष्ठांस् तस्मिन् काले ददाति सा ॥
तं तु कालम् अनुप्राप्तं विदित्वा पृथिवी तदा ॥
प्रायाचत वरं यं मां नरकार्थाय तं शृणु ॥
देवानाम् असुराणां च अवध्यस् तनयो ऽस्तु मे ॥
उपेतो वैष्णवास्त्रेण तन् मे त्वं दातुम् अर्हसि ॥
yāsau varṣasahasrānte mūrtir uttiṣṭhate mama ||
varārhebhyo varāñ śreṣṭhāṃs tasmin kāle dadāti sā ||
taṃ tu kālam anuprāptaṃ viditvā pṛthivī tadā ||
prāyācata varaṃ yaṃ māṃ narakārthāya taṃ śṛṇu ||
devānām asurāṇāṃ ca avadhyas tanayo 'stu me ||
upeto vaiṣṇavāstreṇa tan me tvaṃ dātum arhasi ||
That form of mine which awakens at the end of a thousand years bestows, in that season, the finest gifts upon those worthy of them. Knowing that season had come, Earth then begged of me a boon — hear now, for Naraka's sake, what it was. 'Let my son be unkillable by gods and asuras, and endowed with the weapon of Vishnu; be pleased to grant me this.'
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The goddess Earth pleads for her son Naraka, asking invulnerability and a divine weapon for him — and the Lord heeds a mother's plea for her child. This shows that even something dark, demonic, is sometimes born from a mother's love that has begged for an excessive gift. It is significant that the Lord Himself is the source of the weapon now turned against His own friend: a good gift, falling into the wrong hands, became an evil. The verse teaches that even the mightiest gift, granted out of compassion for a plea, can become an instrument of wrong if it falls to one unworthy; that love which begs excess for its own can give rise to great calamity; and that evil often grows not from an evil root but from a good gift misused — which is why the Giver Himself must come, in due time, to take back what has been turned against the good.