Shloka 151
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
पुनश्च भक्षितः सोऽपि भार्यां शोचितुमुद्यतः । हा शैव्ये ! क्व गतास्यद्य मामिहापास्य दुःखितम् ॥
punaś ca bhakṣitaḥ so 'pi bhāryāṃ śocitum udyataḥ / hā śaivye! kva gatāsy adya mām ihāpāsya duḥkhitam
پھر وہ خود بھی نگل لیا گیا؛ پھر بھی وہ اپنی بیوی کے لیے نوحہ کرنے لگا—“ہائے شَیویَا! آج تم کہاں چلی گئیں، مجھے غم میں چھوڑ کر؟”
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FAQs
Even in extremity (being devoured), attachment persists; the text critiques moha—grief that clings to relations as if they were permanent—urging steadiness and dharmic clarity.
Narrative instruction (ākhyāna) illustrating human bondage (bandha) through emotion and attachment; not one of the five formal lakṣaṇas as a standalone category.
‘Devoured again’ indicates cyclic dissolution of identities; the repeated call to Śaivyā shows the mind’s tendency to recreate the same sorrow-pattern even after ‘death’ (a reset).