Shloka 191
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
अङ्गप्रत्यङ्गसम्भूतो मनोहृदयनन्दनः ।
मया कुपित्रा हा वत्स ! विक्रीतो येन वस्तुवत् ॥
aṅga-pratyaṅga-sambhūto mano-hṛdaya-nandanaḥ | mayā kupitrā hā vatsa! vikrīto yena vastuvat ||
我が身の肢とその細部より生まれ、心と思いを喜ばせた——ああ、わが子よ——この悪しき父である私は、ただの物のようにお前を売ってしまった。
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FAQs
The verse explicitly condemns treating a person as property (‘like an object’). It highlights a dharmic intuition: relationships entail responsibility, and moral failure brings inner torment even before any external consequence.
Ākhyāna with ethical instruction; indirectly supports dharma-śikṣā (moral teaching) within Purāṇic narrative.
Calling the child ‘born of my limbs’ emphasizes non-separateness; selling him symbolizes the mind’s betrayal of its own deeper nature for transient gains—an inner allegory of selling the ‘Self’ to desire.