Shloka 40
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
अधर्मेण समायुक्तो यमस्य विषयं गत: । महद् दुःखं समासाद्य तिर्यग्योनौ प्रजायते,अधर्मपरायण मनुष्य यमलोकमें जाता है और वहाँ महान् दुःख भोगकर यहाँ पशु- पक्षियोंकी योनिमें जन्म लेता है
adharmeṇa samāyukto yamasya viṣayaṃ gataḥ | mahad duḥkhaṃ samāsādya tiryagyonau prajāyate ||
ಯುಧಿಷ್ಠಿರನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಅಧರ್ಮದಿಂದ ಯುಕ್ತನಾದವನು ಯಮನ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆ (ಯಮಲೋಕಕ್ಕೆ) ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಾದುಃಖವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸಿ, ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪಶು-ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳ ಯೋನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜನ್ಮ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ.
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Adharma leads to painful consequences: the wrongdoer falls under Yama’s judgment, suffers in Yama’s realm, and then takes a lower rebirth (tiryag-yoni). The verse stresses moral causality—conduct shapes post-mortem experience and future birth.
In the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma, Yudhiṣṭhira speaks about the fate of those devoted to adharma, describing a sequence of punishment in Yama’s domain followed by rebirth among animals/birds.