[INDOLOGY] Maxim
Patrick Olivelle
jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu
Fri Dec 6 15:47:29 UTC 2013
Dear All:
Can anyone enlighten me about the significance of the comparison of a man abandoning his own dharma and taking up that of someone else to the two eyes of a partridge?
svadharmaṃ yaḥ samutsṛjya paradharmarucir bhavet |
cakoranayane cauraḥ sa śūdraś candrasaṃnibhe ||
cited by Aparārka (p. 17) and ascribed to the Skanda Purāṇa.
Is this a reference to the eyes of the partridge drinking the moonbeams, thus stealing it? Or is there more to it?
Thanks.
Patrick
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