Shloka 91
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
श्वा भूत्वा कृतकर्मासौ जायते मानुषस्तत: । तत्रापत्यं समुत्पाद्य मृतो जायति मूषिक:
śvā bhūtvā kṛtakarmāsau jāyate mānuṣas tataḥ | tatrāpatyaṃ samutpādya mṛto jāyati mūṣikaḥ ||
وبعد أن صار كلبًا استوفى ذلك الكائن ثمر أعماله السابقة، ثم وُلد إنسانًا. وحتى في مولده الإنساني لا يُنجب إلا ولدًا واحدًا، ثم يموت، فيُولد فأرًا ليذوق ما تبقّى من نتيجة خطيئته.
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches the doctrine of karmic fruition across rebirths: a being may pass through animal and human births, experiencing and exhausting portions of past sinful results until the remaining residue is also undergone.
Yudhiṣṭhira describes a sequence of transmigrations: after living as a dog and finishing that portion of karmic consequence, the being is reborn human, begets one child, dies, and then takes birth as a mouse to experience the remaining sinful result.