Shloka 19
The Five Great Sacrifices: Supremacy of Honoring Parents, Pativrata Dharma, Truthfulness, and Śrāddha
विकलं नेत्रकर्णाभ्यां त्यक्त्वा गच्छेच्च रौरवम् । अंत्यजातिषु म्लेच्छेषु चांडालेष्वपि जायते
vikalaṃ netrakarṇābhyāṃ tyaktvā gacchecca rauravam | aṃtyajātiṣu mleccheṣu cāṃḍāleṣvapi jāyate
جو آنکھوں اور کانوں سے محروم معذور کو چھوڑ دے، وہ ‘رَورَو’ نامی دوزخ میں جاتا ہے، اور پھر ادنیٰ ترین جنموں میں—ملیچھوں، اچھوتوں اور حتیٰ کہ چانڈالوں میں—پیدا ہوتا ہے۔
Unspecified (narrative voice within Adhyaya 50; speaker not identifiable from the single verse excerpt)
Concept: Abandoning a helpless, disabled person (bereft of eyes and ears) leads to Raurava and to degrading rebirths among marginalized communities—illustrating karmic reversal and social consequence.
Application: Support and include disabled and dependent persons—family members, elders, and community—through accessibility, companionship, and material help; avoid social cruelty and exclusion.
Primary Rasa: karuna
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
Type: celestial_realm
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A blind-and-deaf crippled figure sits alone by a roadside, hands searching the air, while a passerby turns away, stepping over fallen lotus petals. In the background, the road transforms into a fiery corridor labeled by imagery as Raurava—howling winds, iron spikes, and a distant gate—while above, a wheel of rebirth shows faces dissolving into marginalized births, emphasizing karmic descent.","primary_figures":["disabled person (blind and deaf)","abandoning person","symbolic Yama-dūtas (optional)"],"setting":"Roadside near a village edge that morphs into an infernal passage; symbolic rebirth wheel in the sky.","lighting_mood":"storm-dark with fire-glow","color_palette":["smoky violet","ashen gray","flame orange","dirty white","dark umber"],"tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore painting style: roadside abandonment scene with ornate border; the path behind becomes Raurava with stylized flames and iron motifs; gold leaf highlights the rebirth wheel and the moral boundary line, rich reds and deep shadows, traditional iconographic framing.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari miniature style: poignant roadside tableau with delicate sorrowful expression; the landscape subtly shifts into infernal imagery; cool grays and violets with sharp orange accents; refined brushwork and symbolic sky-wheel.","kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: bold outlines, dramatic posture of the abandoned disabled figure, stylized flames and wind-lines for Raurava; strong red/yellow/black contrasts, temple-wall moral narrative composition.","pichwai_prompt":"Pichwai cloth painting style: allegorical scene framed by lotus borders—lotuses wilt where abandonment occurs; the lower register shows Raurava flames; intricate floral patterns, deep blues/purples with gold accents, peacocks absent or turned away as omen."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"narrative","suggested_raga":"Durga","pace":"moderate-narrative","voice_tone":"emotional","sound_elements":["howling wind (soft)","distant conch","footsteps on gravel","silence after ‘rauravam’"]}
Sandhi Resolution Notes: gacchecca = gacchet + ca; cāṃḍāleṣvapi = cāṇḍāleṣu + api (u + a → va).
FAQs
It condemns abandoning a severely disabled person and frames such neglect as a grave adharma leading to painful karmic consequences.
Raurava is a named hell-realm (naraka) described in Purāṇic literature, invoked here as the post-mortem consequence of the stated wrongdoing.
They reflect older social-religious categories used in the text to indicate 'low' or marginalized births; the verse’s primary thrust is moral—condemning cruelty/abandonment—rather than serving as a contemporary sociological classification.