Shloka 172
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
हा वत्स ! हा पुत्र ! शिशो ! इत्येवं वदती मुहुः ।
कृशा विवर्णा विमनाः पांशुध्वस्तशिरोरुहा ॥
hā vatsa! hā putra! śiśo! ity evaṃ vadatī muhuḥ / kṛśā vivarṇā vimanāḥ pāṃśudhvastaśiroruhā
「ああ、わが子牛よ！ ああ、わが子よ！ おお、幼子よ！」と、彼女は幾度も幾度も叫んだ。やせ衰え、青白く、うなだれ、頭髪は汚れて塵にまみれていた。
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FAQs
The Purāṇic narrative legitimizes grief while also revealing its consuming power; the detailed bodily markers of sorrow teach vairāgya (dispassion) by showing the inevitable vulnerability of human bonds.
Carita/didactic narration; it serves the moral arc of the episode rather than cosmological or genealogical cataloging.
The repeated cries (‘hā…hā…’) are a mantra-like negative echo: the mind circles loss; dust in the hair signifies the collapse of royal saṃskāra (refinement) into elemental reality (pṛthvī), a return to the ground.