Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 14, Shloka 95
Adhyaya 14 — The Messenger of Yama Explains Karmic Retribution and the Causes of Naraka Torments
नरकप्रच्युतानि यानि यैर्यैरिहितपातकैः ।
प्रयान्ति योनिजातानि तन्मे निगदतः शृणु ॥
narakapracyutā yāni yair yair vihitapātakaiḥ /
prayānti yonijātāni tan me nigadataḥ śṛṇu
मुझसे सुनो, जैसा मैं कहता हूँ—नरक से गिरकर, अपने-अपने किए हुए पापों के अनुसार वे विभिन्न योनियों में कौन-कौन से जन्म प्राप्त करते हैं।
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FAQs
Actions are portrayed as specifying not only suffering but also the form of future embodiment. The moral universe is ordered: choices shape destiny in precise ways.
Didactic dharma material; not one of the five canonical purāṇic marks.
‘Yoni’ can be read as a psychological state as well as a biological one: repeated habits generate corresponding ‘forms’ of experience and limitation.