Shloka 32
Adhyaya 22 — Kuvalayashva’s Death through Daitya-Deceit and Madalasa’s Self-Immolation
इयञ्च सत्कुलोत्पन्ना भर्तर्येवमनुव्रताम् ।
कथन्नु शोच्या नारीणां भर्तुरन्यन्न दैवतं ॥
iyañ ca satkulotpannā bhartary evam anuvratām |
kathaṃ nu śocyā nārīṇāṃ bhartur anyan na daivatam ||
ಅವಳು ಸತ್ಕುಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಜನಿಸಿ ಸತಿ, ಪತಿವ್ರತೆ. ಅಂಥ ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯನ್ನು ಹೇಗೆ ಕರುಣಿಸಬೇಕು? ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರಿಗೆ ಪತಿಯ ಹೊರತು ಬೇರೆ ದೇವತೆ ಇಲ್ಲ.
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FAQs
The verse asserts a social-ethical ideal in which a wife’s highest allegiance is to her husband, framing this devotion as a reason to restrain pity or lamentation. In the narrative logic, steadfastness in dharma transforms the meaning of loss.
Primarily not pañcalakṣaṇa material; it belongs to ācāra/dharma-oriented narrative instruction (didactic ethics), rather than sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita.
On a symbolic level, ‘husband as daiva’ can be read as single-pointed devotion (ekāgratā) to one’s chosen locus of dharma—an inward discipline that reduces grief born from dispersion of attachments.