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गोपगृहिणीन्यायः (gopagRhiNInyAyaH)

 
लौकिकन्यायः
English
हत्वा नृपं पतिमवाप्य भुजङ्गदष्टं
देशान्तरे विधिवशाद् गणिकाऽस्मि जाता।
पुत्रं स्वकं समधिगम्य चितां प्रविष्टा
शोचामि गोपगृहिणी कथमद्य तक्रम्॥
This maxim is based on an anecdote-Once a queen fell in love with some other person (a paramour). She gave birth to a child. Due to the excessive love for her lover, she killed the king by giving poison and ran to her paramour. When she came there, she was shocked to see her lover dead due to snake bite. Out of disappointment, she left the town and became a harlot in the adjoining place. One day, her own son, sufficiently grown up by that time, approached her. He recogized his mother and in a mood of penitence, threw himself in the burning fire. The harlot mother too threw herself into the river out of sorrow but was rescued by a cowherd boy whom she married later. But while selling the milk, she fell down and broke the pot. She had, thus, to face a series of calamities. The maxim points out the series of dangers which a man, lacking discretion, has to face. --सा० 977