Shloka 63
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तेन दोषेण ता नेशुरौषध्यो मिषतां द्विज ।
अग्रसद् भूर्युगपत्तास्तदौषध्यो महामते ॥
tena doṣeṇa tā neśur auṣadhyo miṣatāṃ dvija /
agrasad bhūryugapattās tad-auṣadhyo mahāmate //
तस्मात् दोषात् द्विज, ता औषधयः पश्यतां एव विनशुः। ता एव औषधयः महता प्रमाणेन सहसा भक्षिताः, विद्वन्।
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FAQs
Overconsumption and possessiveness lead to sudden collapse of resources. The Purāṇic lens frames ecological depletion as moral causality (doṣa → nāśa).
Poṣaṇa by contrast: it narrates the failure of nourishment when dharma is violated; also part of Manvantara/Yuga moral decline.
‘Herbs vanishing while watched’ suggests that when awareness is dominated by craving, even present supports seem to disappear—attention itself becomes a consuming fire.