Shloka 65
कर्णनिधनवृत्तान्तनिवेदनम् | Reporting Karṇa’s Fall to Yudhiṣṭhira
पापेभ्यो हि धनं दत्तं दातारमपि पीडयेत् । जहाँतक वश चले, किसी तरह उन लुटेरोंको धन नहीं देना चाहिये; क्योंकि पापियोंको दिया हुआ धन दाताको भी दुःख देता है ।।
pāpebhyo hi dhanaṃ dattaṃ dātāram api pīḍayet | yāvatakaṃ vaśaṃ cale, kathaṃcid api tān luṭerān dhanaṃ na dātavyaṃ; yato hi pāpiṣu dattaṃ dhanaṃ dātāram api duḥkhayati || tasmād dharmārtham anṛtam uktvā nānṛtabhāg bhavet; etac chrutvā brūhi pārtha yadi vadhyo yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||
قال فايُو: «إن المال إذا أُعطي للأشرار عاد يُعذّب حتى المُعطي. لذلك، ما دام في وسع المرء، فلا يُعطِ مالًا لأولئك السالبين؛ فإن ما يُعطى للآثمين يرجع على الواهب شقاءً. ومن ثمّ، إذا قيلت كلمة غير صادقة من أجل الدَّرما، فلا ينال المرء نصيبًا من عيب الكذب. وبعد أن سمعت هذا، فقل لي يا بارثا: أَيَبقى يُدْهِشْتِهيرا ممن يجب قتله؟»
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage distinguishes between harmful giving and righteous speech: giving wealth to the wicked rebounds as suffering for the donor, and speaking an untruth specifically to protect or uphold dharma is presented as not incurring the ordinary moral fault of falsehood.
Vāyudeva addresses Arjuna, offering ethical guidance relevant to the battlefield: avoid empowering wrongdoers, and consider that a strategic untruth aimed at preserving dharma may be morally exempt. He then presses Arjuna to judge whether Yudhiṣṭhira should still be treated as a legitimate target for killing.