Shloka 139
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
पश्यति स्म भृशं खिन्नो हा मातः पितरद्य मे ।
एवंवादी स नरके तैलद्रोण्यां निपातितः ॥
paśyati sma bhṛśaṃ khinno hā mātaḥ pitar adya me |
evaṃvādī sa narake tailadroṇyāṃ nipātitaḥ ||
Greatly distressed, he kept seeing (and crying), “Alas, my mother, my father—today (what has become of me)!” Speaking thus, he was cast in hell into a trough/cauldron of oil.
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FAQs
When consequences arrive, worldly supports (even familial identity) cannot shield one; remorse arises too late if dharma is ignored earlier.
Not pancalakṣaṇa; it is naraka-varṇana (description of hell) serving dharma instruction.
The ‘oil cauldron’ imagery suggests boiling agitation (tāpa) produced by one’s own heated passions and harmful acts, experienced as an externalized torment.