Shloka 58
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
मया चास्मै प्रतिज्ञाता भार्येति मदिरेक्षणा ।
न चेच्छसि विवाहं त्वं सङ्कटं नः समागतम् ॥
mayā cāsmai pratijñātā bhāryeti madirekṣaṇā / na cecchasi vivāhaṃ tvaṃ saṅkaṭaṃ naḥ samāgatam
“Và ta đã hứa gả nàng cho ông ấy làm vợ—thiếu nữ mắt đen này. Nếu con không muốn hôn sự, thì một tai ách nghiêm trọng (grave difficulty) đã giáng xuống chúng ta.”
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FAQs
A pledge (pratijñā) creates binding dharmic consequences. Breaking it is not merely personal disappointment; it destabilizes social and ritual order, producing ‘saṅkaṭa’ for all involved.
Narrative dharma (vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna): illustrates the karmic-social weight of promises rather than cosmological taxonomy.
Pratijñā functions like a subtle ‘bond’ (bandhana). Once declared, it shapes outcomes; refusing it generates friction in the unseen moral field, represented here as an arriving crisis.