[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 4.3.67.4 # Skandapurana 4.3.67.4 Skandapurāṇa 4.3.67.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.3.67.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.4) prasūyamānāṃ hariṇīṃ dṛṣṭvā kāruṇyapūrṇadṛk .. 44 .. taddṛṣṭipātaṃ muṃcanvai vyāghro dūraṃ vrajatyaho .. vyāghrī vyāghrasya caritaṃ mṛgī mṛgaviceṣṭitam .. ubhe kathayato 'nyonyaṃ sakhyāvivamudānvite ..45.. dṛṣṭvāpyuddaṃḍakodaṃḍaṃ śabaraṃ śaṃbaromṛgaḥ .. dhṛṣṭo na vartma tyajati sopi kaṃḍūyatepi tam .. 46 .. rohito'raṇyamahiṣamuddharṣati nirākulaḥ.. camarīśabarīkeśaiḥ saṃmimīte svavāladhim ..47.. gavayaḥ śalyakaścā'yamubhāvekatratiṣṭhataḥ .. tīvramātsaryamutsṛjya munitejoniyaṃtritau .. 45 .. huṃḍau ca muṃḍa yuddhāya na sajjete jayaiṣiṇau .. eṇaśāvaṃ sṛgālopi mṛduspṛśati pāṇinā..49.. tṛṇvaṃti tṛṇagulmādīnśvāpadāstvāpadāspadam.. lokadvaye duḥkhahaṃhi dhiktanmāṃsasya bhakṣaṇam.. 4.1.3.50 .. yaḥ svārthaṃ māṃsapacanaṃ kurute pāpamohitaḥ .. yāvaṃtyasya tu romāṇi tāvatsa narake vaset ..51.. paraprāṇaistu ye prāṇānsvānpuṣṇaṃ ti hi durdhiyaḥ .. ākalpaṃ narakānbhuktvā te bhujyaṃtetra taiḥ punaḥ..52 .. jātumāṃsaṃ na bhoktavyaṃ prāṇaiḥ kaṃṭhagatairapi .. bhoktavyaṃ tarhi bhoktavyaṃ svamāṃsaṃ netarasya ca .. 53 .. varameteśvāpadā vai maitrāvaruṇi sevayā .. yeṣāṃ na hiṃsane buddhirnatu hiṃsāparā narāḥ ..54 .. bakopi palvale matsyānnāśnātyagrecarānapi .. na mahāṃtopyamahato matsyā matsyānadaṃti vai .. 55 .. ekataḥ sarvamāṃsāni matsyamāṃsaṃ tathakaitaḥ.. smṛtiḥ smṛteti kiṃtvebhiratomatsyāñjahatyamī .. 56 .. śyenopi vartikāṃ dṛṣṭvā bhavatyeṣa parāṅmukhaḥ .. citramatrāpi madhupā bhramaṃti malināśayāḥ .. 57 .. suciraṃ narakānbhuktvā madirāpānalaṃpaṭāḥ .. > seeing a doe giving birth, its eyes filled with compassion, / the tiger departs far away, averting its gaze, oh! / A tigress recounting the tiger's ways, and a doe the deer's behavior, / both speak with each other like female friends, full of joy; / even upon seeing a Śabara with an uplifted bow, the śambara deer, / bold, does not leave the path, and the man even scratches it; / the red deer, undisturbed, rubs against the wild buffalo; / a female yak measures her tail against the hair of a Śabara woman; / both this wild ox and the porcupine stand in one place, / restrained by the sage's splendor, having discarded intense malice; / and two rams, desiring victory, do not prepare for a head-butting fight; / even a jackal softly touches a young fawn with its paw; / beasts of prey graze on grass and bushes, for food \[of prey\] is an abode of disaster: / in both worlds it brings misery; fie on the eating of meat! / He who cooks meat for himself, deluded by sin, / shall dwell in hell for as many \[years\] as the creature had hairs; / the foolish who nourish their own lives with the lives of others, / after suffering in hells until the end of the kalpa, are eaten by those same \[creatures\] in turn; / meat is never to be eaten, even when one's life is in the throat; / if it must be eaten, then one's own flesh should be eaten, never another's; / better are these beasts of prey, through their devotion to \[Agastya\] the son of Mitra and Varuṇa, / whose mind is free from slaughter, than men intent on violence; / even the crane does not eat the fish moving before it in the pond; / the large fish do not devour the small fish; / on one side \[are set\] all meats, and on the other fish-flesh alone: / remembering this sacred tradition, do they therefore abandon fish? / Even the hawk, seeing a quail, turns its face away; / yet strange it is that even here honey-drinking bees wander about with tainted intent: / having long enjoyed the hells, addicted to drinking wine, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.3.67.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.3) - [Next: 4.3.67.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.5) - [Up: 4.3.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.3.67.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.4) · Pramāṇa