Shloka 61
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
कन्योवाच तपस्वी यदि मे तातस् तत् किमृक्षमिदं दिवि ।
समारोप्य विवाहो मे तदृक्षे क्रियते न तु ॥
kanyovāca tapasvī yadi me tātas tat kim ṛkṣam idaṃ divi | samāropya vivāho me tadṛkṣe kriyate na tu ||
لڑکی نے کہا: پدر، اگر وہ واقعی تپسوی ہے تو آسمان میں یہ نَکشتر (رِکش) کیا ہے؟ اسے اوپر اٹھا دیجیے (اس کی جگہ بدل دیجیے) تاکہ میرا نکاح اسی نَکشتر کے تحت انجام پائے۔
FAQs
Ritual life (like marriage) is portrayed as harmonized with cosmic rhythms; yet the text also teaches that higher spiritual power (tapas) can reconcile obstacles without violating dharma’s intent.
Manvantara/Vaṃśa narrative with a cosmological note: it links human rites to celestial order, a typical Purāṇic bridging of social dharma and cosmology.
The ‘raising of the asterism’ symbolizes elevating one’s inner timing (kāla) so that life-events occur under an auspicious, clarified state of consciousness.