Shloka 21
नरक-निर्णयः, पाप-कर्म-फल-व्यवस्था, प्रायश्चित्त-क्रमः, तथा हरि-स्मरण-परमत्वम्
मार्जारकुक्कुटच्छागश्ववराहविहंगमान् पोषयन् नरकं याति तम् एव द्विजसत्तम
mārjārakukkuṭacchāgaśvavarāhavihaṃgamān poṣayan narakaṃ yāti tam eva dvijasattama
मार्जारकुक्कुटच्छागश्ववराहविहंगमान् पोषयन् नरकं याति तम् एव द्विजसत्तम
Sage Parāśara (in instruction to Maitreya)
FAQs
This verse treats certain animal-keeping—when tied to harm, exploitation, or slaughter—as a Kali-yuga marker that produces severe karmic results, including descent to naraka.
He frames karma as immediate moral causality: sustaining practices that enable violence becomes participation in that violence, and therefore ripens as suffering in hellish states.
Even without naming Vishnu directly, the verse presumes a Vishnu-governed moral cosmos where dharma and adharma are objectively real and sovereignly enforced through karmic law.