Shloka 8
धन-यज्ञ-दानविवेकः
Wealth, Sacrifice, and Disciplined Giving
कृच्छाच्च द्रव्यसंहारं कुर्वन्ति धनकारणात् । धनेन तृषितो<बुद्धया भ्रूणहत्यां न बुद्धयते
kṛcchāc ca dravyasaṃhāraṃ kurvanti dhanakāraṇāt | dhanena tṛṣito 'buddhyā bhrūṇahatyāṃ na buddhyate ||
लोग धन के कारण बड़े कष्ट से नाना प्रकार के द्रव्यों का संग्रह करते हैं। परंतु धन-तृष्णा से तपा हुआ मनुष्य अविवेकवश यह नहीं समझता कि वह भ्रूणहत्या-जैसे पाप में भी फँस सकता है।
देवस्थान उवाच
Educational Q&A
Craving for wealth can eclipse moral discernment; when one becomes "thirsty" for money, one may commit or abet extremely grave wrongdoing without even recognizing it as sin.
The speaker (Devastāna) is delivering a dharma-oriented admonition: people labor intensely to accumulate wealth, but obsession with it leads to ethical blindness, so that even acts comparable to bhrūṇahatya can be incurred unknowingly.