Shloka 87
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
गत्वा गजद्रुमाद्येषु गोष्वश्वेषु तथैव च ।
अन्यासु चैव पापासु दुःखदासु च योनिषु ॥
gatvā gajadrumādyeṣu goṣv aśveṣu tathaiva ca | anyāsu caiva pāpāsu duḥkhadāsu ca yoniṣu ||
ആന, വൃക്ഷം മുതലായ ജന്മങ്ങളിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ച്, അതുപോലെ പശു, കുതിര മുതലായവയിലും; അവൻ മറ്റു പാപമയവും ദുഃഖദായകവുമായ യോനികളിലും ജനിക്കുന്നു।
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FAQs
Even comparatively ‘noble’ nonhuman forms (elephant, cow) are still marked by limitation and vulnerability; the teaching stresses the rarity and responsibility of human birth.
Didactic karmaphala material; not a genealogical list but a moral taxonomy of births (yoni-bheda) used for instruction.
Tree-birth suggests immobility and endurance without choice; it symbolizes the karmic freezing of will when one has repeatedly acted against discernment.