Shloka 29
मांसपरिवर्जन-प्रशंसा (Praise of Abstention from Meat) / Ethics of Ahiṃsā in Diet and Rite
न याति नरकं घोरें संसारांश्व न सेवते । सर्वकामसमायुक्तः प्रेत्य चाप्यश्नुते सुखम्
na yāti narakaṃ ghore saṃsārāṃś ca na sevate | sarvakāmasamāyuktaḥ pretya cāpy aśnute sukham, nareśvara |
ユディシュティラは言った。「王よ、ヴェーダとニヤーヤとダルマ、そして伝承の古史に通じた千人のブラーフマナに食を施す者は、恐るべき地獄に赴かず、また世の流転の輪に縛られ続けることもない。この世にあってその欲求は満たされ、死後は来世にて安楽を享受する。」
युधिछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Generous hospitality—especially feeding learned and virtuous brāhmaṇas—is presented as a powerful dharmic act whose fruit is both worldly fulfillment and posthumous well-being, protecting one from hellish consequences and continued bondage to saṃsāra.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and states the spiritual and ethical reward of feeding a thousand brāhmaṇas learned in Veda, nyāya, dharma, and itihāsa, emphasizing the merit (puṇya) and auspicious afterlife results of such charity.