Shloka 9
Adhyāya 122 — Śruta-vṛtta-yukta Brāhmaṇa and the Ethics of Dāna
Maitreya–Vyāsa Saṃvāda
सम्भूत: क्षत्रियकुले प्रसादादमितौजस:
sambhūtaḥ kṣatriyakule prasādād amitaujasaḥ | śvapākaśūdravaiśyānāṃ kṣatriyāṇāṃ ca yoniṣu ||
毗耶娑说道：“蒙大能者之恩，他生于刹帝利家族。其后又依次流转，投生于贱民（śvapāka）、首陀罗、吠舍，乃至刹帝利等诸胎。历经多种形态的生存漂泊之后，终因光辉的毗耶娑之垂怜，再得刹帝利之生，遂前往拜见那些大圣贤。”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores karmic continuity across births and the possibility of uplift through merit and grace (prasāda). Social status and embodiment are shown as outcomes within a larger moral-causal order, not as permanent or absolute identities.
Vyāsa describes a being who, after moving through multiple births in various social categories (including outcaste, Śūdra, Vaiśya, and Kṣatriya), finally attains birth in a Kṣatriya family by grace and then approaches great sages for darśana (audience/vision).