Shloka 97

Devanagari script

ततो गर्भशतैर्जन्तुर्बहुभि: सम्प्रपद्यते । संसारांश्व बहून्‌ गत्वा ततस्तिर्यक्षु जायते,इस तरह कई सौ बार वह जीव गर्भकी यन्त्रणा भोगता है। तदनन्तर बहुत बार जन्म लेनेके पश्चात्‌ वह तिर्यग्योनिमें उत्पन्न होता है

Transliteration

tato garbhaśatair jantur bahubhiḥ samprapadyate | saṃsārāṃś ca bahūn gatvā tatas tiryakṣu jāyate ||

Translation

پھر وہ جاندار سینکڑوں رحموں سے گزرتا ہے اور بار بار حمل کی کٹھن آزمائش جھیلتا ہے۔ بے شمار چکروں میں بھٹک کر اور بار بار جنم لے کر آخرکار وہ تِریَک (غیر انسانی/حیوانی) یونیوں میں پیدا ہوتا ہے۔

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

गर्भशतैःby/through hundreds of wombs (gestations)

जन्तुःthe living being

बहुभिःby many (times/means)

सम्प्रपद्यतेattains/undergoes/comes to

संसारान्worldly existences, cycles of transmigration

चand

बहून्many

गत्वाhaving gone/passed through

ततःthen, thereafter

तिर्यक्षुamong animals (in the animal realm)

जायतेis born

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

jantu (the living being)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that repeated births and the suffering of gestation are consequences of continued bondage to saṃsāra; unethical or ignorant conduct can prolong this wandering and culminate in lower, animal births, whereas dharma aims to break the cycle.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira is speaking within the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma and the fruits of actions, describing the jīva’s long journey through many wombs and its possible descent into animal embodiment after extensive transmigration.