Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 130 Shloka 67 - Mahabharata | Japanese | Vedapath

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Shloka 67

Devanagari script

न तेषां क्षीरपा: केचिज्जायन्ते कुलवर्धना: । प्रजाक्षयेण युज्यन्ते कुलवंशक्षयेण च

Transliteration

na teṣāṃ kṣīrapāḥ kecij jāyante kulavardhanāḥ | prajā-kṣayeṇa yujyante kula-vaṃśa-kṣayeṇa ca ||

Translation

シャクラは言った。「幼い子牛のいる牝牛から乳を搾り取って飲む者には、家を支え家系を増し栄えさせるような、正しい意味での『乳を飲む子』は一人も生まれない。むしろ子孫断絶の苦に結ばれ、氏族と血統は衰滅する。」

Word by Word

नnot

तेषाम्of them

क्षीरपाःmilk-drinkers

केचित्any/some

जायन्तेare born

कुलवर्धनाःincreasers of the family/line

प्रजाक्षयेणby/with the destruction of offspring

युज्यन्तेare joined/meet with; come to be afflicted with

कुलवंशक्षयेणby/with the destruction of family and lineage

चand

Speaker

शक्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śakra (Indra)

kṣīra (milk)

go (cow)

vatsa (calf) (implied by the context of 'small-calf cows')

kula

vaṃśa

prajā

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Exploiting a cow’s milk when her calf is still dependent—taking without due restraint and care—is treated as adharma; the text warns that such greed harms one’s own future through loss of progeny and decline of family lineage.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śakra (Indra) delivers a moral warning: people who improperly consume milk taken from cows with young calves will not produce worthy offspring and will suffer prajā-kṣaya (loss of children) and kula-vaṃśa-kṣaya (decline of clan and lineage).