वैशंपायन उवाच
राजा पाण्डुर् महारण्ये मृगव्यालनिषेविते ॥
वने मैथुनकालस्थं ददर्श मृगयूथपम् ॥
ततस् तां च मृगीं तं च रुक्मपुङ्खैः सुपत्रिभिः ॥
निर्बिभेद शरैस् तीक्ष्णैः पाण्डुः पञ्चभिर् आशुगैः ॥
स च राजन् महातेजा ऋषिपुत्रस् तपोधनः ॥
भार्यया सह तेजस्वी मृगरूपेण संगतः ॥
संसक्तस् तु तया मृग्या मानुषीम् ईरयन् गिरम् ॥
क्षणेन पतितो भूमौ विललापाकुलेन्द्रियः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
rājā pāṇḍur mahāraṇye mṛgavyālaniṣevite ||
vane maithunakālasthaṃ dadarśa mṛgayūthapam ||
tatas tāṃ ca mṛgīṃ taṃ ca rukmapuṅkhaiḥ supatribhiḥ ||
nirbibheda śarais tīkṣṇaiḥ pāṇḍuḥ pañcabhir āśugaiḥ ||
sa ca rājan mahātejā ṛṣiputras tapodhanaḥ ||
bhāryayā saha tejasvī mṛgarūpeṇa saṃgataḥ ||
saṃsaktas tu tayā mṛgyā mānuṣīm īrayan giram ||
kṣaṇena patito bhūmau vilalāpākulendriyaḥ ||
Vaishampayana said: 'King Pandu, in the great forest inhabited by beasts and predators, saw the leader of a herd of deer at the time of mating; and then Pandu pierced both that doe and that stag with five sharp, golden-feathered, swift-flying arrows. But he was the greatly radiant son of a sage, an ascetic, who, resplendent, had united with his wife in the form of a deer. Joined with that doe, uttering human speech, he instantly fell to the ground and wailed, his senses in disarray.'
ddca8ba5313f · 发布于 2026年7月12日 16:30:27 UTC
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Here the fateful deed is accomplished, foreshadowed already by Pandu's passion for the hunt. Notable is that the victim who fell was no ordinary deer, but a sage-ascetic in animal form, caught in the most intimate, defenseless moment. Here the subtle law of karma works itself out: he who before, in ignorance, delighted in killing creatures for sport (mrigaya) now strikes down a being, and the dreadful fruit of this will not be long in coming. It is notable, too, that the misdeed was done without evil intent — by the custom and passion of the hunter; but even unwitting violence against life, especially in the sacred moment of the continuation of the race, brings retribution. Thus the scripture shows once more: violence, even when habitual and 'permitted,' is not a matter of indifference before the higher law, and the human speech breaking forth from the dying beast turns sport into tragedy.