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sa tayor vacanād rājan upasaṅgamya bhārgavam | aśvinīkumārābhyāṁ yad uktaṁ tat sarvam ācacakṣe || tataḥ śrutvā cyavano bhāryām uvāca—priye! devavaidyau yathā vadatas tathā kuru ||
O King, hearing the words of those two, Sukanyā approached the Bhārgava sage (Cyavana) and reported to him everything that the Aśvinīkumāras had said. After hearing it, Cyavana said to his wife: “Beloved, do exactly as the divine physicians have advised.” The episode frames a moral tension between marital fidelity and a divinely offered remedy, with Cyavana authorizing a course of action that preserves dharma while addressing his own infirmity.
लोगश उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights dharma in marriage: Sukanyā acts transparently by reporting the Aśvins’ proposal to her husband, and Cyavana’s instruction emphasizes consent and righteous procedure when facing morally sensitive offers, even if they promise benefit.
After the Aśvinīkumāras propose to restore Cyavana’s youth and ask Sukanyā to choose one of them as husband, Sukanyā goes to Cyavana and recounts everything. Cyavana then tells her to follow the divine physicians’ plan.