Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
स्वरोचिरुवाच आयुर्वेदप्रसादेन ते करिष्ये पुनर्नवे ।
सख्यौ तव महाशोकं समुत्सृज सुमध्यमे ॥
svarocir uvāca āyurvedaprasādena te kariṣye punarnave / sakhyau tava mahāśokaṃ samutsṛja sumadhyame
ಸ್ವಾರೋಚಿಷನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಆಯುರ್ವೇದದ ಹಿತಕರ ಶಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಮತ್ತೆ ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಓ ಸಖಿ, ಓ ಸಣ್ಣ ನಡುಮೆಯವಳೇ, ನಿನ್ನ ಮಹಾಶೋಕವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸು.
Sorrow is treated as something that can and should be relinquished when remedial action is available; compassion is expressed not only through words but through practical healing.
Manvantara with ancillary Vaṃśānucarita-style narration: an episode within a Manu-era account illustrating conduct and consequence rather than cosmogenesis.
Āyurveda here symbolizes “right knowledge applied” (yukti): restoration is both bodily and psychological—renewal (punarnava) hints at a reconstitution of vitality and hope after karmic affliction.