Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 74, Shloka 23
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
मृग्युवाच अहं पितृगृहे बाला सखीभिः सहिता वनम् । रन्तुं गता ददर्शैकं मृगं मृग्या समागतम् ॥
mṛgy uvāca ahaṃ pitṛgṛhe bālā sakhībhiḥ sahitā vanam / rantuṃ gatā dadarśaikaṃ mṛgaṃ mṛgyā samāgatam
मृगी बोली—जब मैं पिता के घर में युवती थी, तब सखियों के साथ खेलने के लिए वन में गई। वहाँ मैंने एक हरिण को एक मृगी के साथ संयुक्त देखा।
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FAQs
The scene frames harm as arising from heedlessness: casual amusement can lead to serious ethical breach when it disrupts the life-process of others.
Upākhyāna (illustrative moral tale) rather than the five formal characteristics; it functions as dharma-teaching through story.
The forest encounter symbolizes the liminal zone where untrained impulses meet natural law; interference there triggers ‘return’ in kind—rebirth into the very species disturbed.