Shloka 108
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
स्मृतिं चाप्रयतानाञ्च शून्यागारनिषेवणात् ।
अपहन्ति सुतस्तस्याः प्रचण्डो नाम नामतः ॥
smṛtiṃ cāprayatānāṃ ca śūnyāgāra-niṣevaṇāt / apahanti sutas tasyāḥ pracaṇḍo nāma nāmataḥ
അശ്രദ്ധ (സ്മൃതിഭ്രംശം)യും ശൂന്യഗൃഹങ്ങളെ ആശ്രയിച്ചതും കാരണം അവളുടെ പുത്രനെ ‘പ്രചണ്ഡ’ എന്ന ഒരാൾ അപഹരിച്ചു।
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FAQs
The verse links external risk (unsafe/abandoned spaces) with internal risk (carelessness). It encodes a dharmic norm: protection comes from both prudent environment and attentive conduct.
Ācāra/Dharma; not pancalakṣaṇa.
‘Empty house’ can symbolize an uninhabited, unlit psyche; when awareness (smṛti) is absent, destructive forces (Pracaṇḍa) ‘take away’ the fruit of life—offspring/creative continuity.