Shloka 98
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
हरिश्चन्द्रस्ततो राजा वसञ्चाण्डालपत्तने ।
प्रातर्मध्याह्नसमये सायञ्चैतदगायत ॥
hariścandras tato rājā vasan cāṇḍāla-pattane |
prātar madhyāhna-samaye sāyaṃ caitad agāyata ||
Kemudian Raja Hariścandra, yang tinggal di penempatan orang buangan, melagukan ratapan ini pada waktu pagi, tengah hari, dan sekali lagi pada waktu petang.
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FAQs
The verse emphasizes disciplined endurance: Hariścandra’s truth-bound life is portrayed as a sustained practice, renewed at the day’s three junctions (morning–midday–evening). His external degradation (living among the socially excluded) does not negate inner dharma; rather, it magnifies the ideal that satya and steadfastness are maintained repeatedly, not merely proclaimed once.
Primarily within Vaṃśa/Vaṃśānucarita (dynastic/royal narratives and exemplary lives). It is not cosmological sarga/pratisarga material, nor a manvantara enumeration in this specific verse; it serves the Purāṇic function of teaching dharma through royal biography.
The thrice-daily singing can be read as an inner ‘tri-sandhyā’ discipline: the repeated utterance at morning, midday, and evening symbolizes constant self-remembrance and vow-keeping through changing states (rise–zenith–decline). The ‘cāṇḍāla-pattana’ setting symbolizes the stripping away of status, leaving only the essence of dharma as the true identity.