Shloka 51
Adhyaya 50 — Mind-Born Progeny, Svayambhuva Manu’s Lineage, and Brahmā’s Ordinance to Duḥsaha (Alakṣmī’s Retinue)
यच्च पौनर्भवा योषित् तद्यक्ष ! तव तृप्तये ।
कन्याशुल्कोपधानाय समुपास्ते धनक्रियाः ॥
yac ca paunarbhavā yoṣit tad yakṣa tava tṛptaye |
kanyā-śulkopadhānāya samupāste dhana-kriyāḥ ||
और जो धन-लाभ के लिए पौनर्भवा स्त्री वर-शुल्क (दहेज/कन्या-मूल्य) या ध्रुव-धन/आर्थिक जमानत के हेतु जो कर्मकाण्ड करती है—हे यक्ष, वह तुम्हारी तृप्ति के लिए होता है।
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FAQs
Rites driven by transactional or socially censured motives are portrayed as spiritually misdirected; the passage warns against reducing dharma to wealth-strategies.
Normative social-ritual teaching (ācāra) rather than pancalakṣaṇa’s cosmology/genealogy/history.
When desire for gain becomes the ‘deity’ of a rite, the subtle beneficiary shifts from the divine to acquisitive/liminal powers—here encoded as Yakṣa-satisfaction.