Shloka 16
Adhyaya 26 — Madālasa Names Alarka and Reorients Him Toward Kshatriya Duty
मदालसोवाच कल्पनेयं महाराज ! कृता सा व्यावहारिको /
त्वत्कृतानां तथा नाम्नां शृणु भूप ! निरर्थताम्
madālasovāca kalpaneyaṃ mahārāja kṛtā sā vyāvahāriko | tvatkṛtānāṃ tathā nāmnāṃ śṛṇu bhūpa nirarthatām ||
Mādālasā sprach: „O großer König, dies ist nur eine erdgebundene Konvention, die man sich ausgedacht hat. Höre, o Herrscher, die Sinnlosigkeit der Namen selbst, die du vergeben hast.“
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FAQs
Human society runs on conventions (names, roles, relations), but the Self is not defined by them. The ethical thrust is disidentification: do not cling to labels as ultimate reality; cultivate inward freedom.
Primarily outside the pancalakṣaṇa core. It is not sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita; rather it is a didactic-philosophical upadeśa embedded within the Purāṇic narrative.
‘Naming’ symbolizes superimposition (adhyāropa) upon the formless consciousness. The verse introduces a movement from vyāvahārika (transactional reality) toward pāramārthika (ultimate standpoint), where such superimpositions dissolve.