Shloka 14
Garuḍa’s Breach of the Amṛta-Guard and Boons with Viṣṇu; Encounter with Indra (Ādi-parva, Adhyāya 29)
यत्र कूर्माग्रजं हस्ती सदा कर्षत्यवाड्मुख: । तयोर्जन्मान्तरे वैरं सम्प्रवक्ष्याम्यशेषत:
yatra kūrmāgrajaṃ hastī sadā karṣaty avāḍmukhaḥ | tayor janmāntare vairaṃ sampravakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ ||
য’ত অধোমুখী হাতীয়ে সদায় কচ্ছপৰ অগ্ৰজক টানি নিয়ে যায়। সেই দুয়োৰ পূৰ্বজন্মৰ বৈৰ মই এতিয়া সম্পূৰ্ণকৈ বৰ্ণনা কৰিম।
कश्यप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Hostility and suffering are often portrayed as consequences of prior actions; the verse frames present conflict as rooted in past-life enmity, emphasizing karmic continuity and moral causation.
Kaśyapa points to a scene where an elephant keeps dragging the tortoise’s elder brother and announces that he will now recount the complete backstory—how these two became enemies in a previous birth.