Shloka 22
Chatra–Upānah Dāna: Origin Narrative
Jamadagni–Reṇukā–Sūrya Saṃvāda
प्ूरुर्वाच चिकित्सायां प्रचरतु भार्यया चैव पुष्यतु । श्वशुरात्तस्य वृत्ति: स्थाद् यस्ते हरति पुष्करम्
pūrur uvāca cikitsāyāṃ pracaratu bhāryayā caiva puṣyatu | śvaśurāt tasya vṛttiḥ syād yas te harati puṣkaram ||
Wika ni Pūru: “Ang sinumang nagnakaw ng iyong lotus, nawa’y maghanapbuhay sa pagsasagawa ng panggagamot. Nawa’y siya’y buhayin ng kinikita ng kanyang asawa, at nawa’y ang kanyang kabuhayan ay umasa sa sambahayan ng kanyang biyenan.”
धुन्धुमार उवाच
Educational Q&A
Wrongdoing (here, theft) is met with a corrective social-ethical consequence: the offender is assigned a life of dependence and diminished status, emphasizing deterrence and moral reform rather than violent retribution.
Within Dhundhumāra’s discourse, a cited statement attributed to Pūru prescribes how the person who stole a lotus should live—by practicing medicine and subsisting on his wife’s earnings and his father-in-law’s support—framing the response as a socially humiliating penalty.