Shloka 105

Devanagari script

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

Transliteration

vedeṣu dharmaśāstreṣu mithyā yo vai dvijātiṣu | deveṣu pitṛdharmeṣu so 'kṣayaṃ narakaṃ vrajet ||

Translation

Dijo Yudhiṣṭhira: «Quien albergue un juicio falso o desdeñoso acerca de los Vedas y los Dharmaśāstras, acerca de los dos veces nacidos (los brahmanes), y acerca de los dioses y de los ritos debidos a los antepasados, va a un infierno imperecedero.»

Word by Word

वेदेषुin the Vedas

धर्मशास्त्रेषुin the dharma-texts (law/ethics treatises)

मिथ्याfalsely; wrongly

यःwho

वैindeed

द्विजातिषुamong the twice-born (Brahmins etc.)

देवेषुamong the gods

पितृधर्मेषुin the rites/duties toward the ancestors

सःhe

अक्षयम्imperishable; endless

नरकम्hell

व्रजेत्would go; would attain

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Vedas

Dharmaśāstras

Dvijātis (twice-born/Brahmins)

Devas (gods)

Pitṛs (ancestors)

Naraka (hell)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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).