Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 74, Shloka 24
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
ततः समीपवर्तिन्या मया सा ताडिता मृगी । मया त्रस्ता गतान्यत्र क्रुद्धः प्राह ततो मृगः ॥
tataḥ samīpavartinyā mayā sā tāḍitā mṛgī / mayā trastā gatānyatra kruddhaḥ prāha tato mṛgaḥ
“随后我走近时，击打了那只母鹿。它因惧我而奔向别处；于是那只雄鹿大怒，开口说道。”
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FAQs
The ethical breach is concrete—violence and disruption of another’s natural life; Purāṇic ethics often treats such needless harm as generating heavy karmic return.
Didactic narrative (upākhyāna) illustrating karma; not a direct pancalakṣaṇa category passage.
The frightened doe mirrors the future of the narrator—fear and flight become her own lived condition, reflecting the ‘as you do, so you become’ logic of karma.