Shloka 28
मानससृष्टिः, रुद्रोत्पत्तिः, मन्वादिवंशः, प्रलयचतुष्टयम्
हिंसा भार्या त्व् अधर्मस्य तयोर् जज्ञे तथानृतम् कन्या च निकृतिस् ताभ्यां भयं नरकम् एव च
hiṃsā bhāryā tv adharmasya tayor jajñe tathānṛtam kanyā ca nikṛtis tābhyāṃ bhayaṃ narakam eva ca
Violence became the wife of Adharma; from their union was born Anṛta, Falsehood. Their daughter was Nikṛti, Deceit; and from these arose Fear—and Hell itself.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Origin and proliferation of adharma-born qualities and their consequences in the created order
Teaching: Cosmological
Quality: authoritative
Concept: Adharma, when embraced, generates an expanding lineage of falsehood and deceit that culminates in fear and naraka.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Treat violence and dishonesty as root-causes; cultivate ahiṃsā and satya to prevent downstream suffering in self and society.
Vishishtadvaita: Even moral evils are not independent principles; they arise within the ordered cosmos governed by the Lord, and their fruits are administered by that order.
FAQs
It frames evil as a causal chain: when unrighteousness joins with violence, it generates falsehood and deceit, culminating in fear and hell—showing moral order as an objective structure of the cosmos.
Parāśara presents them as born from the lineage of vice: deceit and falsehood are not merely personal faults but generative forces that produce existential fear and the experience of Naraka as consequence.
Even when describing Adharma’s lineage, the Purāṇa implies a Vishnu-governed moral cosmos: Dharma and its opposites unfold within a universe whose ultimate sovereignty and order rest in Vishnu.