Shloka 62
Rāma–Jāmadagnya-janma-kāraṇa and Kṣatra-kṣaya
Paraśurāma’s origins and the depletion/restoration of kṣatriya lineages
गर्भस्थैस्तु मही व्याप्ता पुनरेवाभवत् तदा । जात॑ जात॑ स गर्भ तु पुनरेव जघान ह
garbhasthais tu mahī vyāptā punar evābhavat tadā | jātaṃ jātaṃ sa garbha tu punar eva jaghāna ha ||
Vāsudeva said: “At that time the earth again became filled with embryos in the womb. Yet that embryo-destroying force struck them down again and again—each time they came to birth, it slew them once more.”
वासुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the ethical gravity of violence that targets the most vulnerable: when destructive power becomes habitual, it does not merely kill once but repeatedly annihilates life at its very emergence, signaling adharma and a breakdown of protective duty.
Vāsudeva describes a grim cycle: the world becomes populated with pregnancies again, but the same destructive agency continues to kill the offspring repeatedly—each time they are born—suggesting an ongoing calamity rather than a single event.