Varaha Purana 8.38: Adhyaya 8, Shloka 38
Dialogue on the Ethical Limits of Subsistence and the Five Great Sacrifices
Dharmavyādha, Mātaṅga, and Prasanna
एवमुक्त्वा स चोत्थाय शप्त्वा नारीं तदा धरे । मा स्नुषाभिः समं श्वश्र्वा विश्वासो भवतु क्वचित् ॥ ८.३८ ॥
evam uktvā sa cotthāya śaptvā nārīṃ tadā dhare | mā snuṣābhiḥ samaṃ śvaśrvā viśvāso bhavatu kvacit || 8.38 ||
ครั้นกล่าวดังนี้แล้วเขาลุกขึ้น และโอ้ธรา (แผ่นดิน) ได้สาปหญิงนั้นแล้วประกาศว่า ‘ขออย่าได้มีความไว้วางใจกันเลยระหว่างแม่ผัวกับลูกสะใภ้ ไม่ว่าเมื่อใด’
Varāha (default dialogue framework; explicit speaker not stated in the excerpt)
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It preserves a Purāṇic-style narrative motif used to frame social ethics, reflecting how classical Sanskrit literature sometimes encodes household norms and anxieties—here, conflict and distrust within extended family structures.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the address “Dhare” functions as an epithet for Earth (Pṛthivī/Dharā) within the text’s broader dialogic framework.
The verse articulates a cautionary (and strongly worded) social observation about distrust between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, presented as a curse-formula rather than a universal prescription.
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