Shloka 141
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
सप्तवर्षं मृतात्मानं पुक्कसत्वे ददर्श ह ।
दिनं दिनन्तु नरके दह्यते पच्यतेऽन्यतः ॥
saptavarṣaṃ mṛtātmānaṃ pukkasatve dadarśa ha |
dinaṃ dinantu narake dahyate pacyate 'nyataḥ ||
For seven years he saw that dead-souled one in the state of a pukkasa. Day after day in hell, he is burned; elsewhere he is cooked.
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FAQs
Karmic effects can be prolonged and multi-modal: suffering is not a single event but a sustained, varied sequence, underscoring the seriousness of offenses against dharma.
Not pancalakṣaṇa; it is karmaphala/naraka narration.
‘Seven years’ can function symbolically as a complete cycle of experiential purification; shifting torments (‘burned’/‘cooked’) indicate the mind cycling through different intensities of remorse and reaction.