Shloka 67

Devanagari script

तत्र जीवति वर्षाणि दश पञ्च च भारत | दुष्कृतस्य क्षयं कृत्वा ततो जायति मानुष:,भारत! कीड़ेकी योनिमें वह पंद्रह वर्षोतकफ जीवित रहता है और अपने पापोंका क्षय करके अन्तमें मनुष्य-योनिमें जन्म लेता है

Transliteration

tatra jīvati varṣāṇi daśa pañca ca bhārata | duṣkṛtasya kṣayaṃ kṛtvā tato jāyati mānuṣaḥ ||

Translation

โอ ภารตะ! ณ ที่นั้นมันดำรงชีวิตอยู่สิบห้าปี ครั้นชดใช้และสิ้นผลแห่งกรรมชั่วที่เหลือแล้ว จึงได้บังเกิดใหม่ในครรภ์มนุษย์อีกครั้ง

Word by Word

तत्रthere

जीवतिlives

वर्षाणिyears

दशten

पञ्चfive

चand

भारतO Bharata

दुष्कृतस्यof evil deed/sin

क्षयम्destruction, exhaustion

कृत्वाhaving done/made

ततःthen, thereafter

जायतिis born, arises

मानुषःa human (being)

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Bhārata (lineage/epithet)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches karmic retribution and purification: a being experiences a fixed term in a lower birth, thereby exhausting (kṣaya) the results of past wrongdoing (duṣkṛta), and only after that can it attain human birth again—implying that human life is a renewed opportunity for dharmic choice.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira states a specific karmic outcome: in that particular non-human condition the being lives for fifteen years, and after the sinful residue is spent, it is reborn as a human. The statement functions as part of a broader ethical discourse on the fruits of actions and the pathways of rebirth.