Shloka 85
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
पुत्र उवाच ततो विप्रः समुत्तस्थौ व्याधिमुक्तः पुनर्युवा ।
स्वभाभिर्भासयन् वेश्म वृन्दारक इवाजरः ॥
putra uvāca tato vipraḥ samuttasthau vyādhi-muktaḥ punar yuvā | svabhābhir bhāsayan veśma vṛndāraka ivājaraḥ ||
पुत्र उवाच—ततः स ब्राह्मणः समुत्थाय निरामयः पुनर्यौवनवान्, स्वतेजसा गृहं प्रकाशयन्, दिव्यसत्त्व इव जरामुक्तः।
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FAQs
The story validates dharma through visible transformation: inner virtue manifests as outer well-being. The ‘radiance’ motif signals that righteousness is not abstract—it reshapes character, presence, and fate.
Again, Ākhyāna: a didactic episode demonstrating dharma and its fruits, not a cosmological or genealogical register.
Becoming ‘youthful again’ symbolizes renewal of prāṇa and sattva. The ‘house’ shining suggests that one person’s dharmic alignment can purify and brighten the entire social space (gṛha as microcosm).