स्त्रीभोगानां विशेषज्ञः शास्त्रधर्मार्थतत्त्ववित् ॥
नार्हस् त्वं सुरसंकाश कर्तुम् अस्वर्ग्यम् ईदृशम् ॥
त्वया नृशंसकर्तारः पापाचाराश् च मानवाः ॥
निग्राह्याः पार्थिवश्रेष्ठ त्रिवर्गपरिवर्जिताः ॥
किं कृतं ते नरश्रेष्ठ निघ्नतो माम् अनागसम् ॥
मुनिं मूलफलाहारं मृगवेषधरं नृप ॥
वसमानम् अरण्येषु नित्यं शमपरायणम् ॥
त्वयाहं हिंसितो यस्मात् तस्मात् त्वाम् अप्य् असंशयम् ॥
द्वयोर् नृशंसकर्तारम् अवशं काममोहितम् ॥
जीवितान्तकरो भाव एवम् एवागमिष्यति ॥
strībhogānāṃ viśeṣajñaḥ śāstradharmārthatattvavit ||
nārhas tvaṃ surasaṃkāśa kartum asvargyam īdṛśam ||
tvayā nṛśaṃsakartāraḥ pāpācārāś ca mānavāḥ ||
nigrāhyāḥ pārthivaśreṣṭha trivargaparivarjitāḥ ||
kiṃ kṛtaṃ te naraśreṣṭha nighnato mām anāgasam ||
muniṃ mūlaphalāhāraṃ mṛgaveṣadharaṃ nṛpa ||
vasamānam araṇyeṣu nityaṃ śamaparāyaṇam ||
tvayāhaṃ hiṃsito yasmāt tasmāt tvām apy asaṃśayam ||
dvayor nṛśaṃsakartāram avaśaṃ kāmamohitam ||
jīvitāntakaro bhāva evam evāgamiṣyati ||
'You who know the pleasures of women, versed in the essence of the shastras, dharma, and artha — you ought not, godlike one, to commit such a deed, one that forfeits heaven. By you, O best of kings, should cruel evildoers be punished, those who have forsaken the three aims of life. What then have you done, O best of men, in slaying me, who am guiltless — a muni who lived on roots and fruits, wearing the form of a deer, O king, dwelling in the forests, ever devoted to tranquility? Because I have been slain by you, you too, without doubt — committing cruelty against two, powerless, deluded by desire — will be overtaken in just the same way by the state that ends life.'
99c01500b37b · 发布于 2026年7月12日 16:30:27 UTC
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Here the sage utters the curse — a retribution proportioned to the guilt. Notable is its construction: the king, whose task is to punish evildoers, has himself become an evildoer by killing a guiltless ascetic; and therefore the punishment will overtake him in the same way — death in the moment of passion. Here the purity of the law of retribution is displayed: just as Animandavya was impaled on a stake because he himself had impaled creatures, so too Pandu will die in a moment of love, because he killed in a moment of love. Notable is the phrase 'against two' (dvayoh): he struck down a pair, and the punishment is bound to a pair — to Pandu and his wife. Notable, too, is the mercy within the severity: the curse does not deprive Pandu of heaven and does not brand him a killer of a brahmin (as will be clarified further), but only returns to him his own deed. Thus the scripture shows that retribution in dharma is not blind vengeance, but an exact, proportioned mirror of the act.