Shloka 1.32.7
कुशवंशवर्णनम् — The Line of Kuśa and the Disfigurement of Kuśanābha’s Daughters by Vāyu
अधूर्तरजसो राम धर्मारण्यं महीपति:।चक्रे पुरवरं राजा वसुश्चक्रे गिरिव्रजम्।।।।
kim idaṃ kathyatāṃ putryaḥ ko dharmam avamanyate | kubjāḥ kena kṛtāḥ sarvā veṣṭantyo nābhibhāṣatha | evaṃ rājā viniśśvasya samādhiṃ sandadhe tataḥ ||
“What is this? Tell me, my daughters—who has scorned dharma? By whom have you all been made crooked and deformed? Though you stand around me, why do you not speak?” Thus the king, sighing deeply, then composed his mind and entered concentration (samādhi).
O Rama! king Adhurtarajasa constructed Dharmaranya, the best of cities and king Vasu, the city of Girivrajam.
Dharma is treated as a public moral order: wrongdoing is framed as “dishonouring dharma,” and the king seeks truth before response, then steadies his mind.
The king questions his injured daughters about who caused their deformation and why they are silent; afterward he gathers himself in samādhi.
Measured judgment and inner discipline: he seeks facts, laments, and then composes his mind rather than acting rashly.