जायन्ते कण्टकैर्भिन्नाः कोशे वा कोशकारकाः । मृगपक्षिविहङ्गानां घातका मांसभक्षकाः
jāyante kaṇṭakairbhinnāḥ kośe vā kośakārakāḥ | mṛgapakṣivihaṅgānāṃ ghātakā māṃsabhakṣakāḥ
وہ کانٹوں سے چھیدے ہوئے جنم لیتے ہیں، یا کوئے کے اندر ہی کویا بنانے والے کیڑے بن جاتے ہیں—وہ جو ہرنوں اور پرندوں کے قاتل اور گوشت خور ہیں۔
Deductive: Skanda (Kārttikeya) narrating within Āvantya Khaṇḍa’s Reva Khaṇḍa frame
Scene: A metamorphic karmic montage: hunters killing deer and birds; then rebirth scenes—one figure emerging with skin torn by thorns in a thorn-bush landscape; another enclosed within a silken cocoon, cramped and struggling—symbolizing karmic mirroring.
Cruelty to living beings returns as embodied suffering; violence (hiṃsā) shapes one’s future birth and pain.
No specific tīrtha is mentioned; the verse is a karmic-ethical teaching within the Reva Khaṇḍa context.
No explicit ritual; the implied prescription is ahiṃsā and restraint from killing.