Shloka 175
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
स तां रोरुदतीं भार्यां नाभ्यजानात्तु पार्थिवः ।
चिरप्रवाससंतप्तां पुनर्जातामिवाबलाम् ॥
sa tāṃ rorudatīṃ bhāryāṃ nābhyajānāt tu pārthivaḥ | cirapravāsasantaptāṃ punarjātām ivābalām ||
किन्तु राजा दीर्घवियोगकर्शितां नवजातस्त्रीव विकृतां रुदतीं स्वभार्याम् अपि न प्रत्यजानात्।
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FAQs
External form is unstable; intense duḥkha can erase social recognition. The verse pushes the listener toward valuing inner dharma over outward status and appearance.
It is narrative ethics embedded in vaṃśa/ākhyāna material—illustrative history rather than cosmological creation cycles.
‘Not recognizing’ mirrors avidyā: under the pressure of saṃsāra, even intimate realities are veiled. ‘Punarjātā’ hints at repeated birth—identity continually reconstituted by karma.