Shloka 45
Adhyaya 18 — Arjuna Declines the Throne; Garga Directs Him to Dattatreya; The Gods Defeat the Daityas through Dattatreya’s Vision and the Movement of Lakshmi
गर्ग उवाच सानुरागास्ततस्ते तु प्रोक्ताश्चेत्थं परस्परम् ।
तस्य तां योषितं साध्वीं समुत्क्षिप्य स्मरार्दिताः ॥
garga uvāca sānurāgās tatas te tu proktāś cettthaṃ parasparam | tasya tāṃ yoṣitaṃ sādhvīṃ samutkṣipya smarārditāḥ ||
گرگ نے کہا—یوں وہ آپس میں شہوت و رغبت سے باتیں کرنے لگے؛ پھر خواہش سے مغلوب ہو کر انہوں نے اُس کی پاک دامن، ستی بیوی کو اٹھا لیا۔
FAQs
Calling her ‘sādhvī’ underscores the gravity of the act: it is not romance but transgression. Desire (smara) is portrayed as a force that ‘afflicts,’ not ennobles, when divorced from dharma.
Didactic narrative (ākhyāna) reinforcing dharma norms concerning women’s protection and restraint of passions.
‘Smara-ardita’ indicates being wounded by mental imagery. Esoterically, the ‘lifting’ is the attempt of lower impulses to elevate themselves by stealing higher virtue—an impossible inversion.