Shloka 7
अध्याय २९७ — श्रेयः, धृति, दान-नियमाः
Welfare, Steadfastness, and Norms of Giving
पापात् पापसमाचारान्निहीनाच्च नराधिप । पाप एव वध: प्रोक्तो नरकायेति निश्चय:
pāpāt pāpasamācārān nihīnāc ca narādhipa | pāpa eva vadhaḥ prokto narakāyeti niścayaḥ ||
નરાધિપ! પાપી, પાપાચારી અને હીન મનુષ્યના હાથે જે વધ થાય છે, તે વધ પાપસ્વરૂપ જ કહેવાયો છે; અને તે નરકમાં પતન કરાવે છે—આ શાસ્ત્રનો નિશ્ચય છે.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the moral quality of an act of killing is affected by the killer’s character: when the slayer is sinful and degraded, the killing is classified as sinful and is said to result in hell, according to śāstric judgment.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma, the sage Parāśara addresses a king and lays down a doctrinal rule about the ethical consequences of being killed by a sinful person, emphasizing the śāstric certainty of its karmic result.