Shloka 11
Adhyāya 60: Dāna vs. Yajña—Royal Giving, Protection, and Karmic Share
अहिंसाया: फल रूप॑ दीक्षाया जन्म वै कुले । फलमूलाशिनां राज्यं स्वर्ग: पर्णाशिनां भवेत्
ahiṃsāyāḥ phala-rūpaṃ dīkṣāyā janma vai kule | phala-mūlāśināṃ rājyaṃ svargaḥ parṇāśināṃ bhavet ||
Dijo Vaiśaṃpāyana: «La iniciación asumida en la forma de la no violencia (ahiṃsā) da fruto como nacimiento en un linaje noble. Para quienes viven de frutos y raíces, la recompensa es la soberanía; para quienes se sustentan de hojas, la recompensa se vuelve el cielo».
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse maps specific ascetic disciplines to corresponding karmic fruits: non-violence as a consecrated vow yields elevated birth; increasingly austere dietary restraints are said to yield increasingly exalted rewards (sovereignty and heaven). It emphasizes that ethical restraint and tapas are causally efficacious within dharma.
Vaiśaṃpāyana continues a didactic passage in the Anuśāsana Parva, enumerating the outcomes (phala) of vows and ascetic practices. The focus is not on battlefield events but on instruction about dharma, merit, and the graded results of self-restraint.