एकोनविंशे मण्डूकः कूर्मो विंशतिमे भवे । एकविंशे भवे मत्स्यो द्वाविंशे मूषकोऽभवम्
ekonaviṃśe maṇḍūkaḥ kūrmo viṃśatime bhave | ekaviṃśe bhave matsyo dvāviṃśe mūṣako'bhavam
À la dix-neuvième naissance, je devins une grenouille ; à la vingtième, une tortue. À la vingt-et-unième, un poisson ; et à la vingt-deuxième, une souris.
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Scene: A sequence of births unfolds: frog, tortoise, fish, mouse—shown as memory-visions around the narrator, emphasizing smallness and vulnerability of embodied life.
Karmic bondage can reduce one to increasingly constrained existences, urging a turn toward purification and higher aims.
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None.