Shloka 25
Umā–Maheśvara-saṃvāda: Varṇa-bhraṃśa, Ācāra (Vṛtta), and Karmic Ascent/Decline
मित्रद्रुह्नन धीयाने यश्व स्वाद् वृषलीपति: । एतेषु दैवं पित्रयं वा न देयं स्थात् कथंचन
mitradruhṇeṇa dhīyāne yaśva svād vṛṣalīpatiḥ | eteṣu daivaṁ pitryaṁ vā na deyaṁ syāt kathaṁcana ||
Dharma sprach: „Sei einer ein Freundesverräter, sei er von verderbtem Wandel, sei er ein ‘Herr einer vṛṣalī’ (einer, der auf niedrige, gesellschaftlich verdammte Weise lebt) — solchen Menschen darf man niemals, unter keinerlei Umständen, darbringen, was den Göttern oder den Ahnen bestimmt ist.“
धर्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Offerings intended for the gods (daiva) and the ancestors (pitrya) must not be given to persons of treacherous or morally corrupt character; ritual giving is governed by ethical fitness of the recipient.
Dharma is laying down a normative rule within a discourse on right conduct: he identifies certain disqualifying traits (betrayal of friends, corrupt behavior, ignoble associations) and states that such people are not to receive divine or ancestral offerings.