Shloka 52
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
यथा पुनरहोरात्र-संस्थानमुपजायते ।
यथा च तस्याः स्वपतिर् न साध्व्या नाशमेṣ्यति ॥
yathā punar ahorātra-saṃsthānam upajāyate | yathā ca tasyāḥ svapatir na sādhvyā nāśam eṣyati ||
لكي يعود نظام الليل والنهار إلى الظهور، ولكي لا يهلك زوجها بسبب تلك المرأة الفاضلة—لا بد من ضمان ذلك.
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FAQs
A dharmic resolution preserves multiple goods at once: cosmic regularity (day/night) and non-harm (the husband’s life). Purāṇic ethics often seeks such harmonization rather than one-sided victory.
Cosmic-order maintenance motif (adjacent to sarga as ordered manifestation), but delivered as a dharma narrative about the power and restraint of vows.
Day/night are symbolic of prāṇa’s alternating flows and consciousness states. Restoring their ‘saṃsthāna’ while preventing ‘nāśa’ points to stabilizing inner cycles without collateral damage—siddhi under dharma.