Shloka 29
Adhyaya 76 — The Sixth Manvantara: Cakshusha Manu, the Child-Snatcher, and the Problem of Kinship
भक्षयामास च सुतं तस्य बोधद्विजन्मनः ।
स तत्र द्विजसंस्कारैः संस्कृतो हैमिनीसुतः ॥
bhakṣayāmāsa ca sutaṃ tasya bodhadvijanmanaḥ | sa tatra dvijasaṃskāraiḥ saṃskṛto haiminīsutaḥ ||
আৰু সেই শিশু-অপহৰণকাৰিণীয়ে সেই ব্রাহ্মণ বোধৰ পুত্ৰক ভক্ষণ কৰিলে। তাৰ পাছত মই—হৈমিনীৰ (কথিত) পুত্ৰ—তাতে দ্বিজ-সংস্কাৰে সংস্কৃত/দীক্ষিত হ’লোঁ।
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FAQs
Ritual formation (saṃskāra) powerfully shapes social identity, yet the verse also warns that such identity can be built atop injustice; dharma requires confronting the truth behind one’s position.
Ethical-narrative instruction; not one of the five cosmological characteristics, though it uses family-story elements typical of purāṇic vaṃśānucarita narration.
‘Devouring the son’ can symbolize ignorance consuming rightful inheritance; the ‘dvija-saṃskāra’ then represents a second birth that may be externally correct yet internally conflicted without truth.