Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 86
Jyotiṣa-saṅgraha: Varga-vibhāga, Bala-nirṇaya, Garbha-phala, Āyuḥ-gaṇanā
चंद्रास्तसुखगः पापैर्मातुः पीडां समादिशेत् । जीर्णोद्धृतं गृहं मंदे सृजि दग्धं न वा विधौ ॥ ८६ ॥
caṃdrāstasukhagaḥ pāpairmātuḥ pīḍāṃ samādiśet | jīrṇoddhṛtaṃ gṛhaṃ maṃde sṛji dagdhaṃ na vā vidhau || 86 ||
ಪಾಪಗ್ರಹಗಳಿಂದ ದೂಷಿತವಾದ ಚಂದ್ರನು ಅಸ್ತ-ಸುಖಗ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ಹೋದರೆ, ಅದು ತಾಯಿಗೆ ಪೀಡೆಯ ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಶನಿ ದುರ್ಬಲನಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ಜೀರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ನಂತರ ದುರಸ್ತಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಮನೆ ಸೂಚಿಸುತ್ತದೆ—ಅದು ಅಗ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ದಗ್ಧವಾಗಬಹುದು ಅಥವಾ ವಿಧಿವಶಾತ್ ಸ್ಥಿರವಾಗಿರದು.
Sanatkumāra (teaching Nārada)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: karuna
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
It frames worldly suffering (especially harm to one’s mother and instability of one’s home) as karmically signaled through graha-doṣa, encouraging dharmic living and śānti (pacificatory) conduct rather than fatalism.
While the verse is primarily Jyotiṣa-based, its implied teaching supports Bhakti indirectly: recognizing misfortune as a call to humility, prayer, and righteous restraint, one turns to the Lord for steadiness and inner detachment.
Jyotiṣa (a Vedāṅga): the verse gives predictive rules linking Candra affliction to maternal distress and Śani weakness to damage/instability of dwellings, used for timing caution and performing śānti measures.