Shloka 103
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
यस्यान न क्रियते सर्वः सम्यग् वैवाहिको विधिः ।
कालातीतोऽथवा तस्याः हरत्येका कुचद्वयम् ॥
yasyā na kriyate sarvaḥ samyag vaivāhiko vidhiḥ / kālātīto 'thavā tasyā haraty ekā kuca-dvayam
യാതൊരു കന്യകയുടെ വിവാഹസംസ്കാരം വിധിപൂർവ്വം പൂർണ്ണമാകാതെയോ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ യഥാകാലം കഴിഞ്ഞ് നടത്തപ്പെടുകയോ ചെയ്താൽ—അവളുടെ സ്തനയുഗളം ആ സ്ത്രീപീഡക ശക്തി അപഹരിക്കുന്നു।
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FAQs
The passage frames social-ritual order (saṃskāra) as protective: neglect or delay of prescribed rites is portrayed as inviting affliction. Ethically, it urges timely, complete performance of duties and communal responsibility for safeguarding vulnerable life-stages.
Primarily falls under Ācāra/Dharma instruction (not one of the core five). It is ancillary dharma material commonly embedded within Purāṇic narrative frameworks rather than Sarga/Pratisarga/Vaṃśa/Manvantara/Vaṃśānucarita.
The ‘theft’ of bodily markers of maturity symbolizes loss of śakti/wholeness when rites that integrate the individual into dharmic society are disrupted; it encodes anxiety about liminality and the need for ritual containment.