Shloka 45
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
तन्नास्ति सर्वमेवैतद्विनैषां व्युष्टिसंस्थितम् ।
कथं नु दिनसर्गः स्यादन्योऽन्यमवदन्सुराः ॥
tannāsti sarvam evaitad vinaiṣāṃ vyuṣṭisaṃsthitam | kathaṃ nu dinasargaḥ syād anyo 'nyam avadan surāḥ ||
彼らが暁を स्थापित（確立）しなければ、これら一切は成り立たない。では、いかにして昼の生起があり得ようか——と、神々は互いに語り合った。
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FAQs
Cosmic regularity (time, dawn, day) is treated as the scaffolding of dharma and yajña. When that order is disrupted, both worldly life and sacred duty become untenable.
Touches cosmological functioning (sarga-like concern with ordered manifestation), but presented as narrative causality rather than a formal cosmogony.
‘Dawn’ represents awakening/illumination; when it is withheld, the ‘day’ (clarity, lawful action) cannot arise—an inner allegory for how dharma depends on awakened discernment.