Harishchandra
Hindu · mortal · vedic · Recorded classification
The hardships are not enumerated — selling his wife and son, and then himself to a keeper of a cremation ground — because the treatment consulted states that he faced them and never lied, and does not list them. He is the figure Gandhi named as the story that shaped him in childhood, which is a measure of reach the census records and the record does not assert.
Domains
- truthfulness
- kingship
Relations
- of the line of: IkshvakuA lineage edge, as with Sagara's.Reference treatment of Harishchandra within the Ikshvaku or solar dynasty. (secondary)
Sources
- Harishchandra is the solar-dynasty king whose refusal to lie under extreme hardship is still taught across India as a moral example.: Reference treatments of Harishchandra and of the solar dynasty. (secondary)