Shloka 150
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
तत्रापश्यत स सिंहं वै व्यादितास्यं भयावहम् । बिभक्षयिषुमायातं शरभेण समन्वितम् ॥
tatrāpaśyata sa siṃhaṃ vai vyāditāsyaṃ bhayāvaham / bibhakṣayiṣum āyātaṃ śarabheṇa samanvitam
ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನು ಒಂದು ಸಿಂಹವನ್ನು ಕಂಡನು—ಬಾಯನ್ನು ಬಿಚ್ಚಿ, ಭಯಾನಕವಾಗಿ—ತಿನ್ನಲು ಸಮೀಪಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು; ಅದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಶರಭವೂ ಇದ್ದನು.
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FAQs
When dharma-supports (wealth, family, status) collapse, the world appears predatory; the verse externalizes existential fear as a consequence of instability and past actions.
An episode within narrative instruction (ākhyāna), not a cosmological or genealogical section.
The lion symbolizes death/time (kāla) with an ‘open mouth’; the śarabha (a powerful hybrid beast in later lore) can symbolize compounded fear—threats multiplying when the mind is uncentered.