Shloka 29
Adhyaya 76 — The Sixth Manvantara: Cakshusha Manu, the Child-Snatcher, and the Problem of Kinship
भक्षयामास च सुतं तस्य बोधद्विजन्मनः ।
स तत्र द्विजसंस्कारैः संस्कृतो हैमिनीसुतः ॥
bhakṣayāmāsa ca sutaṃ tasya bodhadvijanmanaḥ | sa tatra dvijasaṃskāraiḥ saṃskṛto haiminīsutaḥ ||
“At nilamon ng babaeng dumukot ang anak na lalaki ng Brahmin na si Bodha. Pagkaraan, ako—na itinuturing na anak ni Haiminī—ay nilinis at pinasimulan sa mga ritwal ng dvija, ang ‘dalawang ulit na isinilang,’ kabilang ang upanayana, doon mismo.”
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FAQs
Ritual formation (saṃskāra) powerfully shapes social identity, yet the verse also warns that such identity can be built atop injustice; dharma requires confronting the truth behind one’s position.
Ethical-narrative instruction; not one of the five cosmological characteristics, though it uses family-story elements typical of purāṇic vaṃśānucarita narration.
‘Devouring the son’ can symbolize ignorance consuming rightful inheritance; the ‘dvija-saṃskāra’ then represents a second birth that may be externally correct yet internally conflicted without truth.