Shloka 80
Dharma-vyādha’s Analysis of Moral Decline and the Mahābhūta–Guṇa Schema (धर्मव्याधोपदेशः)
वीतशोकभयक्रोधा विपाप्मानस्तथैव च । श्रुत्वेमां तु कथां राजन् न भवन्तीह मानवा:,राजन्! इस कथाको सुनकर मनुष्य शोक, भय, क्रोध और पापसे रहित हो फिर इस संसारमें जन्म नहीं लेते हैं
vītaśokabhayakrodhā vipāpmānas tathaiva ca | śrutvemāṃ tu kathāṃ rājan na bhavantīha mānavāḥ ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “O King, having heard this account, people become free from grief, fear, anger, and sin; and, indeed, they do not take birth again in this world.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that attentive listening to a spiritually potent narrative (kathā-śravaṇa) can purify the listener—removing grief, fear, anger, and sin—and can culminate in liberation from further rebirth.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and praises the transformative fruit of the story being recounted, asserting that those who hear it become purified and attain a state beyond return to worldly birth.