Shloka 61
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
सास्य वागस्फुटा तात एकवर्णा विभाव्यते ।
दृष्टिश्च भ्राम्यते त्रासाच्छ्वासाच्छुष्यत्यथाननम् ॥
sāsya vāgasphuṭā tāta ekavarṇā vibhāvyate /
dṛṣṭiś ca bhrāmyate trāsāc chvāsāc chuṣyaty athānanam
Bấy giờ, hỡi người thân yêu, lời nói của người ấy trở nên mơ hồ, như co rút lại thành một âm thanh duy nhất; ánh nhìn đảo loạn vì sợ hãi, và do hơi thở nặng nhọc, miệng cùng gương mặt trở nên khô khốc.
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FAQs
The passage highlights the inevitability of bodily dissolution and the helplessness of the embodied being at death, urging a life oriented to dharma and meritorious acts before the senses and speech fail.
Primarily aligned with dharma/karmaphala instruction rather than the five classic puranic markers; it is best classified under practical/ethical teaching connected to karmic consequences (a dharma-upadeśa strand within the Purana).
Speech collapsing to ‘one sound’ and the unsteady gaze can be read as the withdrawal of prāṇa and indriyas (sense-powers), signaling the jīva’s loosening from the gross body as it approaches transition.