Shloka 164
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
स्वप्ने दुःखं महद्दृष्टं यस्यान्तो नोपलभ्यते ।
स्वप्ने दृष्टं मया यत्तु किं नु मे द्वादशाः समाः ॥
svapne duḥkhaṃ mahad dṛṣṭaṃ yasyānto nopalabhyate / svapne dṛṣṭaṃ mayā yat tu kiṃ nu me dvādaśāḥ samāḥ
Trong giấc mộng, ta thấy một nỗi sầu khổ lớn lao, mà không thể nhận ra điểm tận cùng. Nhưng điều ta thấy trong giấc mộng ấy—có phải có nghĩa rằng mười hai năm sẽ trôi qua đối với ta chăng?
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FAQs
Dreams here function as a mirror of impending distress and of the mind’s anxiety about duration; ethically, the verse foregrounds human helplessness before suffering and the need to seek refuge in dharma and the gods (explicitly developed in the following verses).
Primarily within Vaṃśānucarita/Carita-style narration (dynastic/royal episode) rather than sarga/pratisarga; it is an ethical-historical exemplum embedded in the Purāṇic narrative stream.
The ‘dream without visible end’ symbolizes saṃsāric duḥkha whose termination is unknown to the deluded mind; ‘twelve years’ can signify a full cycle of trial/purification, a conventional period for exile/penance motifs in Itihāsa-Purāṇa literature.