Shloka 90
सूकरो जातमात्रस्तु रोगेण प्रियते नूप । श्वा ततो जायते मूढ: कर्मणा तेन पार्थिव,नरेश्वर! सूअरकी योनिमें जन्म लेते ही वह रोगसे मर जाता है। पृथ्वीनाथ! तत्पश्चात् वह मूढ़ जीव उसी पाप-कर्मके कारण कुत्ता होता है
sūkaro jātamātras tu rogeṇa mriyate nṛpa | śvā tato jāyate mūḍhaḥ karmaṇā tena pārthiva ||
Yudhiṣṭhira berkata: “Wahai raja, sebagai babi, sebaik sahaja lahir ia mati kerana penyakit. Sesudah itu, makhluk yang sesat itu, kerana dosa yang sama, lahir sebagai anjing, wahai penguasa bumi.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores karmic causality: harmful or sinful actions can lead to painful consequences and lower rebirths, illustrating how ignorance (mūḍhatā) keeps a being bound to suffering across lives.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and describes a sequence of rebirths: a being is born as a boar that dies immediately from disease, and then—due to the same prior sinful karma—is reborn as a dog, emphasizing the continuity of karmic results.