Shloka 19
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
न तेऽपचारो नैवास्य मातुर्नायं कुलस्य ते ।
तस्य दौःशील्यहेतुस्तु रेवत्यन्तमुपागतम् ॥
na te 'pacāro naivāsya māturnāyaṃ kulasya te / tasya dauḥśīlyahetus tu revatyantam upāgatam
न तेऽपराधोऽस्ति न मातुरपि, न कुलस्य दोषः। अपि तु तस्य दुराचारस्य कारणं रेवत्यन्ते समुपस्थितम्॥
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FAQs
The verse separates apparent blame from underlying causality: moral disorder (dauḥśīlya) is attributed to a specific causal locus (Revatyanta), not indiscriminately to mother or clan. It models careful ethical attribution rather than collective condemnation.
Primarily Vamśānucarita (accounts of lineages/persons) and a narrative setup for an etiological event; it is not sarga/pratisarga proper, but belongs to the Purāṇic biographical-etiological storytelling mode.
‘Dauḥśīlya’ is treated as a transmissible condition with a definable ‘arrival’ (upāgata), hinting at subtle causation (saṃskāra/karma) that manifests through particular nodes rather than uniformly across relations.