Shloka 70
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
छागस्तु निधन प्राप्य पूर्णे संवत्सरे ततः । कीट: संजायते जन्तुस्ततो जायति मानुष:,बकरा पूरे एक वर्षपर मृत्युको प्राप्त होनेके पश्चात् कीड़ा होता है। उसके बाद उस जीवको मनुष्यका जन्म मिलता है
chāgas tu nidhanaṃ prāpya pūrṇe saṃvatsare tataḥ | kīṭaḥ saṃjāyate jantus tato jāyati mānuṣaḥ ||
بکرا بن کر مرنے کے بعد، پھر جب پورا ایک سال گزر جاتا ہے تو وہ جاندار کیڑا بن کر پیدا ہوتا ہے؛ اور اس کے بعد انسانی یونی میں جنم لیتا ہے۔
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a karmic, stepwise movement through embodiments—after death as a goat, the being is said to take a lower form (worm) and then a human birth—highlighting that births follow moral causality and that human birth is a consequential opportunity for dharma.
Yudhiṣṭhira is speaking within a dharma-discourse context in the Anuśāsana Parva, articulating an example of transmigration to illustrate how embodied beings move through different forms over time according to karmic conditions.