Shloka 136
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
कृतः पुण्यविनाशेन ब्राह्मणस्वापनाशनात् ।
यदा न क्षमते तेषां तैः स शप्तो रुषा तदा ॥
kṛtaḥ puṇyavināśena brāhmaṇa-svāpanāśanāt |
yadā na kṣamate teṣāṃ taiḥ sa śapto ruṣā tadā ||
બ્રાહ્મણોની શાંતિ-વિશ્રાંતિને હાનિ પહોંચાડવાથી તે પુણ્યનાશ તરફ ગયો. જ્યારે તેઓ વધુ સહન ન કરી શક્યા, ત્યારે ક્રોધથી તેને શાપ આપ્યો।
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FAQs
Merit is fragile when one violates the peace of the virtuous; repeated disrespect erodes puṇya and culminates in moral ‘reaction’ (here dramatized as a curse). The verse also highlights the limit of forbearance (kṣamā) when dharma is continually attacked.
Didactic narrative outside strict pancalakṣaṇa; it functions as dharma-upadeśa embedded in story (closest to vaṃśānucarita-style moral history).
‘Destroying sleep/repose’ symbolizes disturbing inner stillness (śānti) in oneself and others; the curse represents the psyche’s inevitable rebound when harmony is violated.