Shloka 37
Adhyaya 7 — Harishchandra Tested by Vishvamitra: The Gift of the Kingdom and the Pandava Curse-Backstory
हरिश्चन्द्र उवाच भगवन् राज्यं एतत् ते दत्तं निहतकण्टकम् ।
अवशिष्टम् इदं ब्रह्मन् अद्य देहत्रयं मम ॥
hariścandra uvāca bhagavan rājyam etat te dattaṃ nihatakaṇṭakam | avaśiṣṭam idaṃ brahmann adya deha-trayaṃ mama ||
Hariścandra sprach: „O Gesegneter, dieses Reich ist dir übergeben worden—nun ist es dornenfrei (das heißt: Feinde und Bedrängnisse sind entfernt). O Brahmane, heute bleibt mir nur noch dieser ‚dreifache Leib‘.“
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FAQs
The verse frames an ethical completion: once the realm is secured (“thorns removed”), the king relinquishes claim and identifies the body itself as the final remainder. The moral thrust is dharmic detachment—power and possessions are transferable, but one must still account for one’s embodied condition and its duties/limits.
This verse is best classified under Vaṃśānucarita (accounts of dynasties and exemplary rulers) and Dharma-oriented narrative instruction rather than direct Sarga/Pratisarga/Manvantara cosmology. It functions as an exemplary royal episode embedded in the Purāṇic historical-ethical stream.
“Deha-traya” can be read symbolically as the ‘three bodies’ known in later Vedāntic/Yogic idiom (sthūla-sūkṣma-kāraṇa), or more generally as a triadic embodied condition (e.g., body-speech-mind as the operative ‘person’). The esoteric point is that external sovereignty can be surrendered, but the inner complex of embodiment (and its karmic momentum) remains to be resolved through truth, austerity, and right relinquishment.