Shloka 14
Adhyaya 27 — Madālasa’s Instruction to King Alarka: Royal Ethics, Self-Conquest, and Statecraft
कामप्रसक्तमात्मानं स्मृत्वा पाण्डुं निपातितम् ।
निवर्तयेत्तथा क्रोधादनुह्रादं हतात्मजम् ॥
kāmaprasaktam ātmānaṃ smṛtvā pāṇḍuṃ nipātitam /
nivartayet tathā krodhād anuhrādaṃ hatātmajam
เมื่อระลึกถึงปาณฑุผู้ตกต่ำเพราะยึดติดในกามะ พึงสำรวมตน; และพึงระลึกถึงอนุหราทะผู้เพราะโทสะได้ฆ่าบุตรของตนเองด้วย
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FAQs
The Purāṇa teaches through remembered exemplars: desire can topple even the eminent, and anger can invert parental duty into violence—therefore restraint is a ruler’s (and person’s) safeguard.
Didactic-ethical narrative allusion; not pancalakṣaṇa.
Pāṇḍu represents the fall of discrimination under craving; Anuhrāda represents the mind’s rage destroying its own ‘offspring’—good intentions and cultivated virtues.