Shloka 12
“अहिंसाका फल है रूप और दीक्षाका फल है उत्तम कुलमें जन्म। फल-मूल खाकर रहनेवालोंको राज्य और पत्ता चबाकर तप करनेवालोंको स्वर्गलोककी प्राप्ति होती है ।। पयोभक्षो दिवं याति दानेन द्रविणाधिक: । गुरुशुश्रूषया विद्या नित्यश्राद्धेन संतति:,“दूध पीकर रहनेवाला मनुष्य स्वर्गको जाता है और दान देनेसे वह अधिक धनवान् होता है। गुरुकी सेवा करनेसे विद्या और नित्य श्राद्ध करनेसे संतानकी प्राप्ति होती है
payo-bhakṣo divaṃ yāti dānena draviṇādhikaḥ | guru-śuśrūṣayā vidyā nitya-śrāddhena santatiḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “One who lives on milk attains heaven; by giving gifts one becomes richer in wealth. By devoted service to the teacher one gains true learning, and by performing the ancestral śrāddha regularly one gains progeny.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a compact doctrine of karmic results: austerity through regulated living (here, subsisting on milk) is linked with heavenly attainment; generosity is said to expand one’s prosperity; humble service to one’s teacher yields learning; and regular performance of śrāddha supports continuity of the family line through progeny.
In Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction-focused setting, Vaiśampāyana reports a didactic statement listing the ‘fruits’ (phala) of specific dharmic practices—dietary restraint, charity, service to the guru, and daily śrāddha—framing them as practical ethical-religious disciplines with corresponding outcomes.