Shloka 19
Aśmagīta: Janaka’s Inquiry on Loss, Kāla, and the Limits of Control (अश्मगीता)
प्रादुर्भावश्व भूतानां देहत्यागस्तथैव च । प्राप्तिव्यायामयोगश्च सर्वमेतत् प्रतिष्ठितम्,प्राणियोंकी उत्पत्ति, देहावसान, लाभ” और हानि--ये सब प्रारब्धके ही आधारपर स्थित हैं
prādurbhāvaś ca bhūtānāṃ dehatyāgas tathaiva ca | prāptivyāyāmayogaś ca sarvam etat pratiṣṭhitam ||
阇那迦王说道：众生之显现，以及同样的舍弃此身；得与失；并且为求取果报而作的种种努力——这一切都建立在由往昔业行所已启动的既定业报（prārabdha，已熟之业）之上。
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Janaka emphasizes that birth, death, and the experiences of gain and loss—along with the very conditions under which effort bears fruit—are grounded in prārabdha, the already-ripening portion of past karma. The ethical implication is steadiness and detachment: one should act rightly without being shaken by outcomes.
In the Shanti Parva’s reflective discourse, King Janaka speaks as a teacher of renunciation and wisdom, explaining to his listener that the major turns of embodied life and the results people meet are governed by previously initiated karma, framing how one should understand effort and outcome.