Shloka 105
वेदेषु धर्मशास्त्रेषु मिथ्या यो वै द्विजातिषु । देवेषु पितृधर्मेषु सो$क्षयं नरकं॑ व्रजेत्,जो पुरुष वेद, धर्मशास्त्र, ब्राह्मण, देवता और पितृधर्मोमें मिथ्याबुद्धि रखता है, वह अक्षय नरकको प्राप्त होता है
vedeṣu dharmaśāstreṣu mithyā yo vai dvijātiṣu | deveṣu pitṛdharmeṣu so 'kṣayaṃ narakaṃ vrajet ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Whoever harbors a false or contemptuous judgment regarding the Vedas and the Dharmaśāstras, regarding the twice-born (Brahmins), and regarding the gods and the rites owed to the ancestors—such a person goes to an imperishable hell.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns that deliberate false judgment or contempt toward foundational sources of dharma—Veda, Dharmaśāstra, the twice-born (as custodians of ritual learning), the gods, and ancestral obligations—undermines moral order and leads to grave karmic consequence, described as unending hell.
In the Vana Parva’s dharma-discussions, Yudhiṣṭhira articulates a principle about right belief and reverence: rejecting or maligning sacred authority and obligatory rites is presented as a serious ethical fault with severe afterlife परिणाम (result).