Shloka 17
भीष्मस्य दुर्योधनं प्रति कुलहितोपदेशः | Bhīṣma’s Counsel to Duryodhana on Dynastic Welfare
राजकिल्बिषिणां तेषां भर्तृपिण्डापहारिणाम् | नैवायं न परो लोको विद्यते पापकर्मणाम्
rājakilbiṣiṇāṁ teṣāṁ bhartṛpiṇḍāpahāriṇām | naivāyaṁ na paro loko vidyate pāpakarmaṇām ||
Karna déclara : « Pour ceux qui commettent des offenses envers le roi et s’emparent de la subsistance due à leur maître légitime, il n’est de bien-être ni en ce monde ni de bon état dans l’autre. Souillés par l’acte mauvais, ils perdent l’un et l’autre. »
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Betrayal of rightful authority and theft of another’s due sustenance are grave adharma; such wrongdoing destroys both worldly stability and otherworldly merit—one loses benefit in this life and in the next.
In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war deliberations, Karna speaks in a condemnatory, moralizing tone, asserting that those who offend the king and deprive a rightful protector/master of his due are doomed to lack welfare here and hereafter.