Shloka 9

अध्याय २६ — युद्ध-निन्दा, काम-दोष, तथा धार्तराष्ट्र-नीति-विश्लेषण

War-aversion, Desire as a Policy Fault, and Analysis of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Governance

Devanagari script

एवं पुनर्ब्रह्म॒चर्याप्रसक्तो हित्वा धर्म यः प्रकरोत्यधर्मम्‌ । अश्रद्धधत्‌ परलोकाय मूढो हित्वा देहं तप्यते प्रेत्य मन्द:,जो ब्रह्मचर्यपालनमें प्रवृत्त न हो धर्मका त्याग करके अधर्मका आचरण करता है तथा जो मूढ़ परलोकपर विश्वास नहीं रखता है, वह मन्दभाग्य मानव शरीर त्यागनेके पश्चात्‌ परलोकमें बड़ा कष्ट पाता है

Transliteration

evaṁ punar brahmacaryāprasakto hitvā dharmaṁ yaḥ karoty adharmaṁ | aśraddadhat paralokāya mūḍho hitvā dehaṁ tapyate pretya mandaḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Likewise, one who is not devoted to the discipline of brahmacarya, who abandons dharma and instead commits adharma, and who—deluded—lacks faith in the reality of the next world: that dull-witted, ill-fated person, after giving up the body, suffers greatly after death in the hereafter.

Word by Word

• {'evaṁ': 'thus, in this manner', 'punar': 'again, further', 'brahmacarya': 'celibate discipline

• regulated conduct', 'aprasaktaḥ': 'not attached/devoted

• not engaged', 'hitvā': 'having abandoned, giving up', 'dharmaḥ/dharmaṁ': 'righteous duty

• right conduct', 'yaḥ': 'who', 'karoti/prakaroti': 'does, performs, undertakes', 'adharmaḥ/adharmaṁ': 'unrighteousness

• conduct opposed to dharma', 'aśraddadhat': 'without faith

• not trusting (in)', 'paraloka': 'the other world

• afterlife', 'mūḍhaḥ': 'deluded, foolish', 'deha': 'body', 'pretya': 'after death

• having died', 'tapyate': 'suffers, is tormented', 'mandaḥ': 'dull-minded

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Abandoning dharma—especially through lack of self-restraint (brahmacarya) and disbelief in moral consequences beyond this life—leads to suffering after death; ethical conduct is presented as having inevitable results.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya continues a moral warning within the Udyoga Parva context, describing the fate of a person who rejects disciplined living and righteous duty, emphasizing post-mortem consequences for adharma.