Shloka 51
Adhyaya 50 — Mind-Born Progeny, Svayambhuva Manu’s Lineage, and Brahmā’s Ordinance to Duḥsaha (Alakṣmī’s Retinue)
यच्च पौनर्भवा योषित् तद्यक्ष ! तव तृप्तये ।
कन्याशुल्कोपधानाय समुपास्ते धनक्रियाः ॥
yac ca paunarbhavā yoṣit tad yakṣa tava tṛptaye |
kanyā-śulkopadhānāya samupāste dhana-kriyāḥ ||
പൗനർഭവാ സ്ത്രീ വരശുല്കം (കന്യാമൂല്യം) നേടാനോ, ധനസുരക്ഷ/പണയം എന്ന നിലയിൽ ഉറപ്പാക്കാനോ, ധനലാഭാർത്ഥം ചെയ്യുന്ന ധനകേന്ദ്രിത വിധികർമ്മങ്ങൾ—ഹേ യക്ഷാ, അവ നിന്റെ തൃപ്തിക്കായിരിക്കുന്നു।
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FAQs
Rites driven by transactional or socially censured motives are portrayed as spiritually misdirected; the passage warns against reducing dharma to wealth-strategies.
Normative social-ritual teaching (ācāra) rather than pancalakṣaṇa’s cosmology/genealogy/history.
When desire for gain becomes the ‘deity’ of a rite, the subtle beneficiary shifts from the divine to acquisitive/liminal powers—here encoded as Yakṣa-satisfaction.