Varaha Purana 137.11: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 11
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
न चिरं वाल्पकालं तु यथा कश्चिन्न पश्यति ॥ श्वशुरो यदि वा श्वश्रूर्यथैवान्यो नराधिप
na ciraṁ vālpakālaṁ tu yathā kaścin na paśyati || śvaśuro yadi vā śvaśrūr yathaivānyo narādhipa
राजा, कोई भी इंसन ज़्यादा देर तक उसे नहीं देख पाता। चाहे वो ससुर हो या सास, या कोई और भी।
Varāha (default dialogue frame; speaker not explicit and vocative narādhipa suggests address to a king)
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It preserves kinship terminology and social address forms (narādhipa), valuable for cultural-historical indexing; however, the fragment requires broader context for a secure narrative function.
No geographic location is named in this fragment.
The line suggests social visibility and accountability within kin networks, but the precise ethical point is unclear without adjacent verses.
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