Shloka 192
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
हृत्वा राज्यमशेषं मे ससाधनधनं महत् ।
दैवाहिना नृशंसनेन दष्टो मे तनयस्ततः ॥
hṛtvā rājyam aśeṣaṃ me sa-sādhana-dhanaṃ mahat | daivāhinā nṛśaṃsena daṣṭo me tanayas tataḥ ||
मम समग्रं राज्यं महाधनसमृद्धिसहितं हृत्वा, ततः परं मम पुत्रो दैवसर्पेण क्रूरेण दष्टः।
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FAQs
The king reads his calamities as a sequence: external loss followed by intimate loss. The Purāṇic lesson often drawn is humility before daiva and the necessity of grounding life in dharma rather than in power and possessions.
Ākhyāna; it gestures toward karmic causality (often treated across Purāṇas) but remains within a personal narrative rather than cosmic history.
The ‘serpent of fate’ can symbolize time (kāla) or latent karma striking when conditions ripen. Esoterically, it is the sudden awakening of consequences that were ‘sleeping’ within the causal body.