Shloka 95
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
भारत! वह दण्ड, मुद्गर और शूलकी चोट खाकर दारुण अग्निकुम्भ (कुम्भीपाक), असिपत्रवन, तपी हुई भयंकर बालू, काँटोंसे भरी हुई शाल्मली आदि नरकोंमें कष्ट भोगता है। यमलोकमें पहुँचकर इन ऊपर बताये हुए तथा और भी बहुत-से नरकोंकी भयंकर यातनाएँ भोगकर वह वहाँ यमदूतोंद्वारा पीटा जाता है ।।
tato hataḥ kṛtadhnaḥ sa tatrograir bharatarṣabha | saṃsāracakram āsādya kṛmiyonau prajāyate ||
バーラタよ！ 彼は杖と棍棒と槍の打撃を受け、さらに火の甕（クンビー・パーカ）、剣葉の森、灼けつく恐るべき砂地、棘に満ちたシャールマリーの地など、諸々の地獄で苦しみを味わう。ヤマの世界に至れば、ここに挙げたものをはじめ数多の地獄の凄惨な責め苦を受け、ヤマの使者に打ち据えられる。やがてその忘恩の者は、苛烈なヤマの使者によってそこで殺され――バーラタ族の雄よ――再び輪廻の輪へと投げ戻され、虫の胎に生まれるのである。
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ingratitude (kṛtadghnatā) is treated as a serious adharma: one who fails to acknowledge and repay benefaction incurs severe karmic consequences, including torment in Yama’s realm and a degrading rebirth, illustrating that moral debts and gratitude are central to righteous conduct.
The speaker describes the post-mortem fate of a kṛtadhna: after suffering punishments in terrifying hells and being beaten by Yama’s attendants, he is forced back into the cycle of transmigration and is reborn in a low form of life (as a worm).