Shloka 14
Adhyaya 71 — The King’s Remorse and the Sage’s Counsel on the Necessity of a Wife
साम्प्रतं तु वने त्यक्ता न वेद्मि क्व नु सा गता । भक्षिताऽवापि विपिने सिंहव्याघ्रनिशाचरैः ॥
sāmprataṃ tu vane tyaktā na vedmi kva nu sā gatā / bhakṣitā vāpi vipine siṃha-vyāghra-niśācaraiḥ
Ngunit ngayon, na iniwan sa gubat, hindi ko alam kung saan siya napunta—o kung sa ilang ay nilamon na siya ng mga leon, tigre, o mga nilalang na gumagala sa gabi.
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FAQs
Neglect of duty creates real-world peril for dependents; remorse is sharpened when one imagines the concrete suffering one’s choices may have caused.
Narrative ethics (vaṃśānucarita-type episode) illustrating dharma through lived consequence rather than genealogical or manvantara data.
The ‘forest’ signifies the unstructured realm where social dharma is absent; abandoning one’s dharmic anchor leads the mind into a wilderness of fear (niśācara as inner terrors).