Shloka 142
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
खिद्यते क्षोभ्यतेऽन्यत्र मार्यते पाट्यतेऽन्यतः ।
क्षार्यते दीप्यतेऽन्यत्र शीतवाताहतोऽन्यतः ॥
khidyate kṣobhyate 'nyatra māryate pāṭyate 'nyataḥ |
kṣāryate dīpyate 'nyatra śītavātāhato 'nyataḥ ||
Elsewhere he is wearied and tormented; elsewhere he is struck down and cut; elsewhere he is treated with caustics and set ablaze; elsewhere he is battered by cold winds.
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FAQs
The alternation of punishments conveys inexhaustible karmic repercussion: one cannot ‘settle’ into suffering; consequences pursue the doer in varied forms until the karmic load is exhausted.
Not pancalakṣaṇa; this is a descriptive ethical passage (nīti/dharma instruction through naraka imagery).
Heat and cold extremes symbolize rajas/tamas oscillations—inner instability produced by wrongdoing—experienced as environmental torment in the subtle realm.