Vamana Purana — Karmic Causes of Narakas, Shloka 9
Karmic Causes of Narakas and the Irremediability of Ingratitude (Kṛtaghna-doṣa)
मर्माणि यस्तु साधूनां तुदन् वाग्भिर्निकृन्तति तस्योपरि तुदन्तस्तु तुण्डैस्तिष्ठन्ति पत्त्रिणः
marmāṇi yastu sādhūnāṃ tudan vāgbhirnikṛntati tasyopari tudantastu tuṇḍaistiṣṭhanti pattriṇaḥ
ਜੋ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਸਾਧੂਆਂ ਦੇ ਮਰਮ-ਸਥਾਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬੋਲਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਵਿੰਨ੍ਹਦਾ—ਵਚਨਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਕੱਟਦਾ ਹੈ—ਉਸ ਦੇ ਉੱਤੇ ਤਿੱਖੀ ਚੋਚ ਵਾਲੇ ਪੰਛੀ ਖੜ੍ਹ ਕੇ ਚੋਚਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਚੁਭਦੇ ਰਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ।
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FAQs
Verbal injury is treated as real violence: targeting a saint’s ‘marma’ (inner vulnerabilities) by ridicule, slander, or harsh speech is a grave adharma. The verse promotes disciplined speech as a form of ahiṃsā and reverence toward those devoted to dharma.
A nīti/dharma teaching within Purāṇic literature; not a genealogical or cosmological unit. It functions as ethical reinforcement accompanying ritual and devotional frameworks.
As the offender ‘pecks’ with words, the retribution is mirrored: birds peck with beaks. The symmetry signals karmic correspondence—harm inflicted through a ‘sharp’ instrument (speech) returns through an analogous ‘sharp’ instrument (beaks).