तावत्तयोक्तश्चण्डोऽसावेहि शीघ्रं च भक्षय । अन्नं त्वदर्थमानीतमुपोष्य दिवसं मया
tāvattayoktaścaṇḍo'sāvehi śīghraṃ ca bhakṣaya | annaṃ tvadarthamānītamupoṣya divasaṃ mayā
تب اُس نے چنڈا سے کہا، “جلدی آؤ اور کھانا کھاؤ۔ میں نے تمہارے لیے یہ اناج لایا ہے، سارا دن اُپواس رکھ کر۔”
Lomaharṣaṇa Sūta (deduced: Māheśvarakhaṇḍa narration to sages)
Type: ghat
Scene: A devoted wife addresses her husband (named Caṇḍa) with urgency and care, offering food she carried, her face showing fatigue from fasting yet tenderness.
Self-denial for the welfare of another—especially within dharmic bonds—is praised as a form of merit-bearing devotion.
Kedāra-kṣetra, where the narrative frames ordinary household duty as spiritually luminous in a tīrtha context.
Fasting (upoṣa/upavāsa) is mentioned descriptively—she states she fasted through the day.
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