Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 33
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । शुभाशुभं न बन्धूनां जायते केन हेतुना । एकः प्रसूयते जन्तुरेक एव प्रलीयते
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | śubhāśubhaṃ na bandhūnāṃ jāyate kena hetunā | ekaḥ prasūyate jantureka eva pralīyate
ユディシュティラは言った。「いかなる理由により、人の善悪は親族のものとならぬのか。生きものは独り生まれ、まことに独り滅する。」
Yudhiṣṭhira
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha-mahātmya frame
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, contemplative, asks a grave question on karma and solitude of birth/death; sages seated near a riverbank hermitage with Revā flowing behind.
FAQs
Moral responsibility is individual: one is born and dies alone, so one’s merit and sin are personally borne.
Not directly; it functions as a dharma-question within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative context.
None; it is a philosophical inquiry about the ownership of karma.