Varaha Purana 202.56: Adhyaya 202, Shloka 56
Description of Infernal Punishments and the Ripening of Karmic Consequences
जातिकर्म सहस्रं तु ततो मानुषतां व्रजेत् ॥ इमं सौकरिकं पापं महिषा घातयन्तु तम् ॥
jātikarma sahasraṃ tu tato mānuṣatāṃ vrajet || imaṃ saukarikaṃ pāpaṃ mahiṣā ghātayantu tam
हज़ार जनम के बाद इंसान बनता है। लेकिन यह सुअर-पालक बड़ा पापी है। भैंसें उसे मार डालें।
Varāha (default narrator-instructor in Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)
FAQs
It reflects a common Purāṇic ethical idiom: social wrongdoing is framed through karmic retribution and repeated rebirth, a didactic style widespread in medieval Sanskrit narrative theology.
No specific geographic toponym appears in this verse-fragment.
The passage emphasizes moral causality: harmful conduct is portrayed as producing severe consequences across multiple births.
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