Shloka 7
Account of the Ripening of Karma
Childlessness, Offspring, and Remedial Dharma
पूर्वजन्मनि यो मर्त्यो वर्तनं ब्राह्मणस्य च । हरेद्वा हारयेदत्र पुत्रहीनो भवेत्किल
pūrvajanmani yo martyo vartanaṃ brāhmaṇasya ca | haredvā hārayedatra putrahīno bhavetkila
من كان في ولادةٍ سابقة يسرق—أو يُسبِّب سرقة—رزقَ براهمن، فإنه حقًّا في هذه الحياة يُحرم من البنين.
Unspecified (narratorial/teaching voice within Brahma-khaṇḍa context)
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: karuna
Sandhi Resolution Notes: मर्त्यो→मर्त्यः (visarga before consonant); हरेद्वा→हरेत्+वा; भवेत्किल→भवेत्+किल.
FAQs
It condemns taking away a Brāhmaṇa’s means of subsistence—whether directly or indirectly—and frames it as a grave wrongdoing with serious karmic consequences.
It extends moral responsibility to both direct perpetrators and those who instigate, enable, or commission the act, treating indirect harm as ethically and karmically consequential.
Within Purāṇic karmaphala logic, it is presented as a concrete life-outcome (phala) corresponding to prior wrongdoing—serving as a deterrent and a moral warning, not as a universal rule for every circumstance.