Shloka 50
Adhyaya 7 — Harishchandra Tested by Vishvamitra: The Gift of the Kingdom and the Pandava Curse-Backstory
तस्यानुयाति भार्येयं गृहीत्वा बालकं सुतम् ।
यस्य भृत्याः प्रयातस्य यान्त्यग्रे कुञ्जचरस्थिताः ॥
tasyānuyāti bhāryeyaṃ gṛhītvā bālakaṃ sutam |
yasya bhṛtyāḥ prayātasya yānty agre kuñjacara-sthitāḥ ||
พระมเหสีเสด็จตามหลัง อุ้มพระโอรสน้อยไว้ในอ้อมแขน และบรรดาข้ารับใช้ของบุรุษผู้กำลังจากไปนั้นเดินนำหน้า จัดตำแหน่งอยู่ท่ามกลางพุ่มไม้และพงพฤกษา
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FAQs
The verse paints a realistic social scene: when a man departs, family and dependents move with him—wife with child following, servants going ahead. In dharmic reflection, such imagery commonly underscores how worldly life is enmeshed in responsibilities and attachments; departure is rarely solitary, because one’s karma is interwoven with household bonds and dependents.
This verse is not directly sarga/pratisarga (creation), nor explicit manvantara (Manu cycles), nor vamsha/vamshanucharita (genealogy/dynastic history) on its face. It best fits ancillary narrative/dharma instruction that supports ethical reflection—often accompanying vamshanucharita-style storytelling or didactic episodes, but classification cannot be fixed without adjacent context.
Symbolically, the ‘wife with child’ can represent the inescapability of saṃsāric continuity (progeny, obligation), while ‘servants going ahead’ can suggest the momentum of prior actions and preparations that ‘precede’ the individual. The thicket setting (kuñja) evokes the liminal space between settled life and the forest—an archetypal threshold between worldly order and renunciant/unknown terrain.