Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 8, Shloka 189
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
तात ! तातेति मधुरं ब्रुवाणं स्वयमागतम् ।
उपगुह्य वदिष्ये कं वत्स ! वत्सेति सौहृदात् ॥
tāta! tāteti madhuraṃ bruvāṇaṃ svayam āgatam | upaguhya vadiṣye kaṃ vatsa! vatseti sauhṛdāt ||
甜声呼唤“父亲！父亲！”并自愿前来——如今我还能拥抱谁、以深情呼作“我的孩子！我的孩子！”呢？
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FAQs
Grief is sharpened by memory: the sweetest moments become sources of pain. The ethical undercurrent is not cold detachment but the recognition that love must be rooted in something enduring, otherwise it becomes bondage.
Ākhyāna (narrative) with strong rasa; not a pancalakṣaṇa item itself but a teaching vehicle.
The repeated vocatives (‘tāta’, ‘vatsa’) show nāma-rūpa clinging (name-form fixation). Esoterically, it indicates how the mind perpetuates saṃsāra through repetition of identity-bound language.