Shloka 15
Sāvitrī’s Report and Nārada’s Prognosis (सावित्र्याख्यान—सत्यवान्-गुणवर्णनं तथा अल्पायुषः पूर्वसूचना)
अद्य पुष्यो निशि ब्रह्मन् पुण्यं योगमुपैष्यति । सम्भारा: सम्ध्रियन्तां मे रामश्नोपनिमन्त्रयताम्
adya puṣyo niśi brahman puṇyaṁ yogam upaiṣyati | sambhārāḥ sandhriyantāṁ me rāmaś ca upanimantrayatām ||
Markandeya said: “O Brahmin, today the lunar mansion Puṣya will, in the night, attain an especially auspicious conjunction. Let the preparations be gathered for me, and let Rama also be formally invited.” In the remembered narrative of Daśaratha, this becomes the king’s delighted instruction to his priest: seeing the time as ritually and ethically favorable, he orders the coronation materials to be readied and Rama to be informed—an act that frames kingship as grounded in sacred timing, proper procedure, and public legitimacy.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Right action is shown as action done with propriety: aligning major public decisions (like installing a ruler) with dharmic procedure—consulting priestly counsel, observing auspicious timing, and ensuring formal invitation and preparation—so that authority rests on legitimacy rather than impulse.
Mārkaṇḍeya reports an instruction about timing: Puṣya nakṣatra will become especially auspicious at night, so the speaker orders the necessary coronation materials to be assembled and Rāma to be formally summoned/invited—setting the stage for a royal consecration (abhiṣeka) within the remembered Rāma-story.