Shloka 78
Śāpaprāpti (Receiving a Curse) — Mohinī Narrative
सेयं पापशरीरा हि हत्यायुतसमन्विता ॥ ७७ ॥
seyaṃ pāpaśarīrā hi hatyāyutasamanvitā || 77 ||
निश्चयच ती पापमय देहधारिणी आहे, असंख्य हत्यापापांनी युक्त आहे.
Suta (narrating the Purana; verse describes a sinful person/entity within the Tirtha/Dharma narrative)
Vrata: none
Rasa: {"primary_rasa":"bibhatsa","secondary_rasa":"raudra","emotional_journey":"A stark, compressed denunciation: the verse concentrates disgust and moral revulsion into a single judgment of embodied sin and repeated killing."}
FAQs
It portrays sin (pāpa) as something that can pervade one’s very being—“sin-bodied”—and highlights the heavy karmic weight of hatyā (slaying), preparing the reader for teachings on purification through dharma, pilgrimage, and devotion.
By emphasizing the extremity of pāpa and hatyā, the narrative typically points toward the need for a higher purifier; in Narada Purana’s framework, sincere Vishnu-bhakti, combined with dharmic conduct, is repeatedly upheld as the force that burns karmic impurity.
The verse uses technical dharma vocabulary—especially “hatyā” as a category of grave sin (mahāpātaka)—which is applied in prayāścitta (expiation) reasoning; this aligns with Dharmaśāstra-style analysis rather than a specific Vedanga like Jyotiṣa or Vyākaraṇa.