Shloka 45
Adhyāya 119: Vyāsa–Kīṭa-saṃvāda
Tapas-bala and karmic ascent across yoni
आहर्ता चानुमन्ता च विशस्ता क्रयविक्रयी । संस्कर्ता चोपभोक्ता च खादका: सर्व एव ते
āhartā cānumantā ca viśastā krayavikrayī | saṃskartā copabhoktā ca khādakāḥ sarva eva te ||
ビーシュマは言った。「屠殺のために獣を連れて来る者、許可を与える者、殺す者、買う者と売る者、さらに調理する者と食べる者――これらすべては『食う者』（その行為の参与者）と見なされるべきである。倫理の上では、食のために命を奪うことから生じる罪過を、各々が分かち負う。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral responsibility for violence is collective: procuring, permitting, killing, trading, cooking, and eating are all treated as participation in the same harmful act, so the ethical and karmic burden is shared.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction on dharma, he explains the ethical chain behind animal slaughter for food, identifying every role in the process as complicit, not only the person who performs the killing.