Shloka 20
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
ऋतवागुवाच यस्मान्ममैकपुत्रस्य रेवत्यन्तसमुद्भवम् ।
दौःशील्यमेतत्सा तस्मात् पततामाशु रेवती ॥
ṛtavāguvāca yasmān mamaikaputrasya revatyantasamudbhavam / dauḥśīlyam etat sā tasmāt patatām āśu revatī
Ṛtavāgu sprach: „Da das üble Betragen meines einzigen Sohnes aus Revatyanta hervorgegangen ist, so möge Revatī sogleich aus jenem Zustand herabfallen (hinabgestürzt werden).“
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FAQs
Purāṇic ethics often portray speech (vāk) of ascetics as potent: a curse is framed as a targeted corrective response to perceived moral harm. The caution is twofold—against causing moral downfall, and against the volatility of reactive judgment.
Vamśānucarita/ākhyāna (narrative account) with etiological intent; it supports later place-name and person-origin explanations rather than cosmological creation.
The ‘fall’ (patana) symbolizes descent of consciousness from a higher state due to distortion in conduct; the narrative externalizes inner ethical imbalance into a physical transformation/relocation.