Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 8, Shloka 181
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
राजपत्नीउवाच हा वत्स ! कस्य पापस्य अपध्यानादिदं महत् ।
दुःखमापतितं घोरं यस्यान्तो नोपलभ्यते ॥
rājapatny uvāca: hā vatsa! kasya pāpasya apadhyānād idaṃ mahat | duḥkham āpatitaṃ ghoraṃ yasyānto nopalabhyate ||
Hoàng hậu nói: “Ôi, con của ta! Do trăn trở về tội lỗi nào mà nỗi sầu khổ lớn lao, ghê gớm này giáng xuống chúng ta—một nỗi đau không sao thấy được tận cùng?”
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FAQs
The queen interprets calamity through karmic causality: suffering prompts self-examination and moral accounting, a common Purāṇic impulse toward ethical introspection.
Didactic narrative (ākhyāna) emphasizing karma-dharma reasoning within a royal exemplar story.
‘Apadhyāna’ suggests the mind’s fixation: brooding itself becomes a binding force. The ‘endless sorrow’ image points to saṃsāra’s seeming interminability until insight breaks the cycle.