Shloka 77
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
प्रविश्य गर्भमत्त्येको भुक्त्वा मोहयतेऽपरा ।
जायन्ते मोहनात् तस्याः सर्पमण्डूककच्छपाः ॥
praviśya garbham atty eko bhuktvā mohayate 'parā | jāyante mohanāt tasyāḥ sarpa-maṇḍūka-kacchapāḥ ||
गर्भं प्रविश्य एका शक्तिर्गर्भं भक्षयति; अन्याऽऽहृतभोजनाऽपि मोहं जनयति। तस्या मोहात् सर्पमण्डूककूर्मादयः प्रजायन्ते।
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FAQs
The verse uses vivid imagery to stress that disorderly conduct and delusion have grave consequences, framed as degeneration of outcomes (including ‘lower’ births). It is a moral psychology expressed through mythic causality.
It is ethical/ritual instruction with karmic imagery, not a pañcalakṣaṇa core.
Serpent/frog/tortoise can symbolize tamas-dominant states: fear/poison (sarpa), damp inertia (maṇḍūka), and heavy withdrawal/slowness (kacchapa). ‘Delusion’ (moha) is portrayed as the generator of such states.