Shloka 104
युधिछिर उवाच ब्राह्मणं स््वयमाहूय याचमानमकिज्चनम् । पश्चान्नास्तीति यो ब्रूयात् सो$क्षयं नरक॑ व्रजेत्,युधिष्ठिर बोले--जो पुरुष भिक्षा माँगनेवाले किसी अकिज्चन ब्राह्मणको स्वयं बुलाकर फिर उसे “नाहीं' कर देता है, वह अक्षय नरकमें जाता है
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca brāhmaṇaṁ svayam āhūya yācamānam akiñcanam | paścān nāstīti yo brūyāt so 'kṣayaṁ narakaṁ vrajet ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “If a man himself calls a Brahmin who is begging and utterly destitute, and then afterward tells him, ‘There is nothing (for you),’ such a person goes to an unending hell.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Do not invite a needy supplicant—especially a destitute Brahmin—and then deny help. The verse condemns the cruelty and deceit of raising hope and then refusing, presenting it as a grave breach of dāna-dharma and basic human compassion with severe karmic consequence.
Yudhiṣṭhira states a moral rule: if someone personally summons a begging, impoverished Brahmin and later dismisses him with ‘there is nothing,’ that act is treated as a serious wrongdoing leading to ‘unending hell.’ The focus is on ethical conduct toward the vulnerable and the responsibility created by one’s own invitation.