Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 8, Shloka 192
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
हृत्वा राज्यमशेषं मे ससाधनधनं महत् ।
दैवाहिना नृशंसनेन दष्टो मे तनयस्ततः ॥
hṛtvā rājyam aśeṣaṃ me sa-sādhana-dhanaṃ mahat | daivāhinā nṛśaṃsena daṣṭo me tanayas tataḥ ||
在夺走我整个王国——连同其巨大的财富与资用——之后，我的儿子又被命运那残酷之蛇所噬。
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FAQs
The king reads his calamities as a sequence: external loss followed by intimate loss. The Purāṇic lesson often drawn is humility before daiva and the necessity of grounding life in dharma rather than in power and possessions.
Ākhyāna; it gestures toward karmic causality (often treated across Purāṇas) but remains within a personal narrative rather than cosmic history.
The ‘serpent of fate’ can symbolize time (kāla) or latent karma striking when conditions ripen. Esoterically, it is the sudden awakening of consequences that were ‘sleeping’ within the causal body.