The union of father and mother produces children, Similarly the cruelty that a helpless and sinful wretch commits, produces its progeny of repeated rebirths fraught with great misery.
पितृमातृसमायोगे पुत्रत्वं जायते यथा। हिंसां कृत्वावशः पापो भूयिष्ठं जायते तथा॥