The Efficacy and Merit of Cakra-tīrtha
सन्निधावुपलं दृष्ट्वा गृहीतं तेन तत्पदा ॥ चूर्णयामास तौ पादौ पीडया मोहितो द्विजः ॥
sannidhāv upalaṁ dṛṣṭvā gṛhītaṁ tena tat-padā || cūrṇayāmāsa tau pādau pīḍayā mohito dvijaḥ ||
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Narrator (default dialogue frame: Varāha → Pṛthivī)
It shows how physical injury is used as a narrative instrument to concretize abstract ethical claims within Purāṇic storytelling.
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The passage reinforces the story’s causal chain: bodily suffering follows conditions described earlier, expressed here through an accident-like event.
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