Shloka 20
पेयापेये कुत: सिद्धिर्हिंसन्ति च परस्परम् | गम्यागम्यं तदा नासीत् स्वं परस्वं च वै समम्,फिर पेयापेयका ही विचार कैसे रह सकता था? सब लोग एक दूसरेकी हिंसा करने लगे। उस समय गम्यागम्यका विचार भी नहीं रह गया था। अपना और पराया धन एक-सा समझा जाने लगा
peyāpeye kutaḥ siddhir hiṃsanti ca parasparam | gamyāgamyaṃ tadā nāsīt svaṃ parasvaṃ ca vai samam ||
Vasuharoma said: “How could any settled rule about what may or may not be drunk have existed then? People began harming one another. In that time, even the distinction between what was permissible to approach and what was not had disappeared; one’s own and another’s property came to be regarded as the same.”
वसुहरोम उवाच
Educational Q&A
When dharma collapses, even basic moral discriminations (permitted/forbidden, mine/others’) lose force, leading to mutual violence and social breakdown.
Vasuharoma describes a degenerate time in which norms about conduct and consumption no longer hold, people harm each other, and property boundaries are ignored as if all wealth were the same.