Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 74, Shloka 20
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
का त्वं ब्रूहि मृगी वाक्यं कथं मानुषवद्वदेत् । कश्चैव लोलो यो विघ्नं त्वत्सङ्गे कुरुते मम ॥
kā tvaṃ brūhi mṛgī vākyaṃ kathaṃ mānuṣavad vadet / kaś caiva lolo yo vighnaṃ tvatsaṅge kurute mama
Nhà vua nói: “Ngươi là ai? Hãy nói cho ta, hỡi nai cái—vì sao ngươi nói năng như người? Và kẻ bạc bẽo kia là ai, kẻ đã gây chướng ngại khiến ta không được ở cùng ngươi?”
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FAQs
The verse sets up an inquiry into anomalous experience (an animal speaking) as a doorway to moral causality—suggesting that present conditions and impediments are rooted in prior actions and relationships.
Primarily within Vaṃśānucarita/Upākhyāna-style narrative used for dharma-teaching; it is not a direct Sarga/Pratisarga cosmology passage but a moral episode embedded in the Purāṇic discourse.
‘Human speech in an animal body’ symbolizes residual saṃskāras (impressions) surviving embodiment-changes; ‘vighna’ points to unseen karmic knots that obstruct desire-driven pursuit.