Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
मया चास्मै प्रतिज्ञाता भार्येति मदिरेक्षणा ।
न चेच्छसि विवाहं त्वं सङ्कटं नः समागतम् ॥
mayā cāsmai pratijñātā bhāryeti madirekṣaṇā / na cecchasi vivāhaṃ tvaṃ saṅkaṭaṃ naḥ samāgatam
மேலும், இந்த கருங்கண்களையுடைய கன்னியை அவனுக்கு மனைவியாக அளிப்பேன் என்று நான் வாக்குறுதி அளித்திருந்தேன். நீ திருமணத்தை விரும்பாவிட்டால், நமக்கு பெரிய சங்கடம் ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது।
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A pledge (pratijñā) creates binding dharmic consequences. Breaking it is not merely personal disappointment; it destabilizes social and ritual order, producing ‘saṅkaṭa’ for all involved.
Narrative dharma (vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna): illustrates the karmic-social weight of promises rather than cosmological taxonomy.
Pratijñā functions like a subtle ‘bond’ (bandhana). Once declared, it shapes outcomes; refusing it generates friction in the unseen moral field, represented here as an arriving crisis.