Shloka 98
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
हरिश्चन्द्रस्ततो राजा वसञ्चाण्डालपत्तने ।
प्रातर्मध्याह्नसमये सायञ्चैतदगायत ॥
hariścandras tato rājā vasan cāṇḍāla-pattane |
prātar madhyāhna-samaye sāyaṃ caitad agāyata ||
Bấy giờ, vua Hariścandra, sống trong khu cư trú của kẻ tiện dân, đã cất lên lời than này vào buổi sáng, giữa trưa, và lại một lần nữa vào buổi chiều tối.
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FAQs
The verse emphasizes disciplined endurance: Hariścandra’s truth-bound life is portrayed as a sustained practice, renewed at the day’s three junctions (morning–midday–evening). His external degradation (living among the socially excluded) does not negate inner dharma; rather, it magnifies the ideal that satya and steadfastness are maintained repeatedly, not merely proclaimed once.
Primarily within Vaṃśa/Vaṃśānucarita (dynastic/royal narratives and exemplary lives). It is not cosmological sarga/pratisarga material, nor a manvantara enumeration in this specific verse; it serves the Purāṇic function of teaching dharma through royal biography.
The thrice-daily singing can be read as an inner ‘tri-sandhyā’ discipline: the repeated utterance at morning, midday, and evening symbolizes constant self-remembrance and vow-keeping through changing states (rise–zenith–decline). The ‘cāṇḍāla-pattana’ setting symbolizes the stripping away of status, leaving only the essence of dharma as the true identity.