Shloka 33
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
इत्युक्त्वा सापि सुश्रोणी मूर्च्छिता निपपात ह ।
भर्तृदुःखमहाभारेणासह्येन निपीडिता ॥
ity uktvā sāpi suśroṇī mūrcchitā nipapāta ha |
bhartṛ-duḥkha-mahā-bhāreṇāsahyena nipīḍitā ||
ഇങ്ങനെ പറഞ്ഞ ആ സുനിതംബിനിയായ സ്ത്രീയും ഭർത്തൃശോകത്തിന്റെ അസഹ്യമായ ഭാരത്തിൽ തകർന്നു ദുഃഖാവേശത്തിൽ മൂർഛിച്ച് നിലത്തു വീണു।
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FAQs
The verse highlights the overwhelming force of attachment-born sorrow (śoka) and the fragility of embodied life; it underscores that worldly bonds—especially spousal attachment—can become a ‘mahābhāra’ (crushing load), prompting the seeker or the afflicted to turn toward a higher refuge (daivī śaraṇāgati) within the broader Devi narrative.
This verse is primarily narrative/character depiction within a sacred episode; it does not directly expound sarga (creation), pratisarga, vaṁśa, manvantara, or vaṁśānucarita. At most, it supports vaṁśānucarita-style storytelling (episode-level narration) within the Purana’s larger mythic-historical tapestry.
Fainting (mūrcchā) symbolizes the collapse of ordinary egoic support structures under intense duḥkha; the ‘unbearable burden’ motif points to the limits of purely human coping and prepares the psyche for grace—i.e., the transition from reliance on worldly relations to reliance on the Divine (the Devi’s protective presence in the larger context).