Shloka 20
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
का त्वं ब्रूहि मृगी वाक्यं कथं मानुषवद्वदेत् । कश्चैव लोलो यो विघ्नं त्वत्सङ्गे कुरुते मम ॥
kā tvaṃ brūhi mṛgī vākyaṃ kathaṃ mānuṣavad vadet / kaś caiva lolo yo vighnaṃ tvatsaṅge kurute mama
कोऽसि त्वं मृगी? ब्रूहि—कथं मानुषवद् वदसि? कश्चासौ चपलः, यो मम त्वया सह सङ्गमे विघ्नं करोति?
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FAQs
The verse sets up an inquiry into anomalous experience (an animal speaking) as a doorway to moral causality—suggesting that present conditions and impediments are rooted in prior actions and relationships.
Primarily within Vaṃśānucarita/Upākhyāna-style narrative used for dharma-teaching; it is not a direct Sarga/Pratisarga cosmology passage but a moral episode embedded in the Purāṇic discourse.
‘Human speech in an animal body’ symbolizes residual saṃskāras (impressions) surviving embodiment-changes; ‘vighna’ points to unseen karmic knots that obstruct desire-driven pursuit.