Shloka 69
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
अनसूयोवाच एते देवाः सहेन्द्रेण मामुपागम्य दुःखिताः ।
त्वद्वाख्यापास्तसत्कर्मदिननक्तनिरूपणाः ॥
anasūyovāca ete devāḥ sahendreṇa mām upāgamya duḥkhitāḥ | tvad-vākhyāpāsta-satkarma-dina-nakta-nirūpaṇāḥ ||
انَسُویا نے کہا—یہ دیوتا اندَر سمیت مصیبت زدہ ہو کر میرے پاس آئے؛ مناسب رسوم و اعمال ترک ہو گئے ہیں، اور جیسا تمہیں بتایا گیا ہے، دن اور رات کا نظام بھی درہم برہم ہو گیا ہے۔
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FAQs
The verse links social-ritual regularity to cosmic stability: when daily cycles and prescribed acts are disrupted, even the devas are portrayed as weakened and distressed.
Touches cosmological maintenance rather than creation/genealogy; best classified as dharma-and-ṛta preservation narrative, ancillary to pancalakṣaṇa.
Day/night stands for disciplined alternation (pravṛtti/nivṛtti). Disorder in inner rhythm leads to ‘deva’ (uplifting faculties) becoming ‘duḥkhita’ (afflicted).