Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 26


Sanskrit:

सर्पचौराग्निविद्युद्‌भ्य: क्षुत्तृड्‌व्याध्यादिभिर्नृप ।पञ्चत्वमृच्छते जन्तुर्भुङ्क्त आरब्धकर्म तत् ॥ २६ ॥

ITRANS:

sarpa-caurāgni-vidyudbhyaḥkṣut-tṛd-vyādhy-ādibhir nṛpapañcatvam ṛcchate janturbhuṅkta ārabdha-karma tat

Translation:

When a conditioned soul is killed by snakes, thieves, fire, lightning, hunger, disease or anything else, he is experiencing the reaction to his own past work.

Purport:

According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, King Parīkṣit obviously was not suffering the reaction of past karma. As a great devotee he was personally brought back home, back to Godhead, by the Lord.