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## Ninth Dasha
**With Hindi Commentary**
**Commentary:** This sutra speaks about betrayal. Just as a serpent kills and eats its own eggs, similarly, one who harms the head of the household, the commander, the king, the minister, and the religious leader, earns the karma of great delusion. Harming these individuals is such a cruel and base act that the killer cannot escape the bondage of the karma of great delusion.
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The sutrakar compares the aforementioned violence to a serpent eating its own young. The implication is that a mother always nurtures her children. If the mother herself starts consuming them instead of protecting them, who can protect them? Similarly, when the protectors of the home and the state, the head of the household and the king, start harming each other, how can they escape the bondage of the karma of great delusion?
The word "andaud" appears in the sutra. It has two meanings: "and-kut" and "and-put". "And-kut" means its own group of eggs, and "and-put" means the shell of the egg, the two parts that protect the egg. It means that the serpent destroys the shells that protect the eggs.
Because harming these individuals disrupts the lives of many people, the karma of great delusion is ordained for the perpetrator.
Now, the sutrakar describes the sixteenth point in the same context:
**"Je nayagan cha rattass neyaram nigamass va. Settin bahuravam hanta mahamoham pakuvvai ||16||"**
**"Yo nayakancha rashtrasya netaram nigamasya va. Shreshthinam bahuravam hanti mahamoham prakurute || 16 ||"**
**Word by Word Meaning:** Je - who, rattass - of the country, nayagan - leader, cha - and, athava - or, nigamass - of the merchants, neyaram - leader, va - or, bahuravam - very famous, setthi - merchant, hanta - kills, mahamoham - great delusion, pakuvvai - earns.
**Meaning:** One who kills the leader of the country, the leader of the merchants, and the very famous merchant, earns the karma of great delusion.