Shloka 34
Adhyaya 15 — Karmic Retribution: Rebirths After Naraka and the King’s Compassion in Hell
कृमिः कीटः पतङ्गोऽथ पक्षी तोयचरो मृगः । गोत्वं प्राप्य च चण्डालपुक्कसादि जुगुप्सितम् ॥
kṛmiḥ kīṭaḥ pataṅgo 'tha pakṣī toya-caro mṛgaḥ / gotvaṃ prāpya ca caṇḍāla-pukkasādi jugupsitam
അവൻ ആദ്യം കൃമിയായി, പിന്നെ കീടമായി, പിന്നെ പതംഗമായി മാറുന്നു; തുടർന്ന് പക്ഷിയായി, ജലചരമായി, മൃഗമായി ജനിക്കുന്നു. ഗോ-യോനി പ്രാപിച്ച ശേഷം അവസാനം ചാണ്ഡാലൻ, പുക്കസൻ മുതലായ നിന്ദിത കുലങ്ങളിൽ ജന്മം നേടുന്നു.
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FAQs
The passage presents a deterrent ethic: stealing highly protected goods (especially cow and gold) is portrayed as producing severe karmic repercussion—progressive degradation into lower births and socially stigmatized conditions.
Primarily Dharma/Ācāra instruction (not one of the five in a strict sense). Indirectly it relates to Manvantara-style moral governance (how beings should act within cosmic order), but it is not a sarga/pratisarga genealogy unit here.
The sequence of births can be read as a symbolic ‘descent of consciousness’ through increasingly constrained embodiments, illustrating how adharmic appropriation (taking what is not given) contracts one’s freedom and dignity across lifetimes.