Shloka 29
मांसपरिवर्जन-प्रशंसा (Praise of Abstention from Meat) / Ethics of Ahiṃsā in Diet and Rite
न याति नरकं घोरें संसारांश्व न सेवते । सर्वकामसमायुक्तः प्रेत्य चाप्यश्नुते सुखम्
na yāti narakaṃ ghore saṃsārāṃś ca na sevate | sarvakāmasamāyuktaḥ pretya cāpy aśnute sukham, nareśvara |
Yudhiṣṭhira dijo: «Oh rey, el hombre que alimenta a mil brāhmanes—doctos en el Veda, en el nyāya, en el dharma y en las historias tradicionales—no va al terrible infierno ni permanece atado al ciclo de las andanzas mundanas. En esta misma vida se colman sus deseos, y tras la muerte goza de felicidad en el más allá».
युधिछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Generous hospitality—especially feeding learned and virtuous brāhmaṇas—is presented as a powerful dharmic act whose fruit is both worldly fulfillment and posthumous well-being, protecting one from hellish consequences and continued bondage to saṃsāra.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and states the spiritual and ethical reward of feeding a thousand brāhmaṇas learned in Veda, nyāya, dharma, and itihāsa, emphasizing the merit (puṇya) and auspicious afterlife results of such charity.