Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, 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 ||
ယုဓိဋ္ဌိရက ပြော၏—«အဓမ္မနှင့် ပေါင်းစည်းနေသူသည် ယမ၏ နယ်ပယ်သို့ သွားရ၏။ ထိုနေရာ၌ ကြီးမားသော ဒုက္ခကို ခံစားပြီးနောက် ဤနေရာ၌ တိရစ္ဆာန် သို့မဟုတ် ငှက်၏ မျိုးရိုးဝမ်း၌ ပြန်လည် မွေးဖွားရ၏»။
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.