Shloka 7
Adhyaya 70 — The King Confronts the Rakshasa and Restores the Brahmin’s Wife
अस्मिन्वनेऽतिगहने तेनानीयाहमुज्झिता ।
न वेद्मि कारणं किं तन्नोपभुङ्क्ते न खादति ॥
asmin vane ’tigahane tenānīyāham ujjhitā | na vedmi kāraṇaṃ kiṃ tan nopabhuṅkte na khādati ||
In this exceedingly dense forest he brought me and then abandoned me. I do not know the reason—he neither enjoys me nor eats me.
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FAQs
The verse highlights the terror of lawlessness: harm is magnified when motives are opaque. Dharmic governance is partly the removal of such fear by making conduct accountable and intelligible through law and protection.
Ākhyāna (narrative) serving dharma instruction; not a direct pañcalakṣaṇa catalog section.
The ‘dense forest’ is a classic symbol of saṃsāra-confusion. The unknown motive suggests the mind’s inability to interpret tamasic forces; clarity arises only when a higher principle (rājadharma/discernment) enters the scene.