Shloka 12
Akṣara–Kṣara Viveka: Vasiṣṭha–Karāla-Janaka Saṃvāda (अक्षर-क्षर विवेकः)
अज्ञानात् तु कृतां हिंसामहिंसा व्यपकर्षति । ब्राह्मणा: शास्त्रनिर्देशादित्याहुर्बग्रह्मयवादिन:
ajñānāt tu kṛtāṃ hiṃsām ahiṃsā vyapakarṣati | brāhmaṇāḥ śāstra-nirdeśād ity āhur brahma-vādinaḥ |
Parāśara dit : La violence commise par ignorance est effacée par l’observance du vœu d’ahiṃsā (non-violence). Ainsi le déclarent, selon les prescriptions des Écritures, les brahmanes sages qui parlent de Brahman.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral accountability depends on intention: harm done unknowingly can be cleansed through the discipline of ahiṃsā and related expiatory conduct, as taught by śāstra; deliberate violence is ethically heavier and is not annulled merely by adopting a vow afterward.
In Śānti Parva’s dharma-discourse, Parāśara instructs on the ethics of non-violence and expiation, citing the consensus of scripturally grounded Brahmin sages about how unintentional harm may be remedied.