Shloka 79
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
दण्डासक्तं महाबाहुं पाशहस्तं सुभैरवम् ।
तन्निर्दिष्टां ततो याति गतिं जन्तुः शुभाशुभाम् ॥
daṇḍāsaktaṃ mahābāhuṃ pāśahastaṃ subhairavam /
tannirdiṣṭāṃ tato yāti gatiṃ jantuḥ śubhāśubhām
त्या महाबाहू, अत्यंत भयंकर—दंड धारण करणाऱ्या व पाश हातात धरणाऱ्या—याला पाहून तो जीव त्याने ठरविलेल्या गतीस प्राप्त होतो, ती शुभ असो वा अशुभ।
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FAQs
Destiny after death is portrayed as adjudicated according to deeds: śubha and aśubha karmas mature into corresponding paths, reinforcing ethical responsibility.
Dharma/karma-fruit teaching; not a pañcalakṣaṇa unit.
The staff and noose symbolize constraint and consequence: the jīva is ‘bound’ by its own actions and ‘directed’ by the impersonal order that Yama represents.