Shloka 10
Adhyāya 122 — Śruta-vṛtta-yukta Brāhmaṇa and the Ethics of Dāna
Maitreya–Vyāsa Saṃvāda
तमृषिं द्रष्टमगमत् सर्वास्वन्यासु योनिषु । श्वाविद्वोधावराहाणां तथैव मृगपक्षिणाम्
tam ṛṣiṁ draṣṭum agamat sarvāsv anyāsu yoniṣu | śvāvid-uddhā-varāhāṇāṁ tathaiva mṛga-pakṣiṇām | śvapāka-śūdra-vaiśyānāṁ kṣatriyāṇāṁ ca yoniṣu |
Vyāsa berkata: Setelah mengembara melalui banyak rahim dan bentuk kelahiran yang lain—dalam kalangan landak (porcupine), unta, babi hutan, demikian juga rusa dan burung; bahkan dalam rahim golongan terbuang, Śūdra, Vaiśya, dan Kṣatriya—akhirnya dia dilahirkan dalam keluarga Kṣatriya. Kemudian, setelah melalui kelahiran-kelahiran itu setahap demi setahap, dan dengan rahmat Vyāsa yang perkasa lagi bercahaya, dia pergi menghadap resi itu.
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores karmic causality and the long arc of rebirth: a being may traverse many forms of existence, and only after such experience—assisted by the grace of a realized guide like Vyāsa—attains a human birth conducive to seeking sages and higher dharma.
Vyāsa narrates that a person (previously moving through many animal and human social births) is finally born as a Kṣatriya; then, in that life, he goes to meet and behold a particular ṛṣi, implying a turning toward instruction, purification, or resolution of a prior account.