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Shloka 28

मांसपरिवर्जन-प्रशंसा (Praise of Abstention from Meat) / Ethics of Ahiṃsā in Diet and Rite

भोजयित्वा दशशतं नरो वेदविदां नृप । न्यायविद्धर्मविदुषामितिहासविदां तथा

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | bhojayitvā daśaśataṁ naro vedavidāṁ nṛpa | nyāyavid dharmaviduṣām itihāsavidāṁ tathā |

Юдхиштхира сказал: «О царь, человек, который угощает пищей тысячу брахманов — сведущих в Ведах, искусных в ньяе (рассуждении и справедливости), знающих дхарму и предания священной истории, — не падает в страшный ад и не оказывается вновь скованным круговоротом мирских странствий. Уже в этой жизни исполняются все его стремления, а после смерти он вкушает счастье в ином мире».

भोजयित्वाhaving fed
भोजयित्वा:
TypeVerb
Rootभोजय् (णिच् of भुज्)
Formक्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि, non-finite
दशशतम्a thousand (ten hundreds)
दशशतम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootदशशत (द्विगु-समास)
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
नरःa man
नरः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootनर
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
वेदविदाम्of knowers of the Veda
वेदविदाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootवेदविद्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Plural
नृपO king
नृप:
TypeNoun
Rootनृप
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
न्यायवित्knower of justice/logic
न्यायवित्:
TypeNoun
Rootन्यायविद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
धर्मविदुषाम्of the learned knowers of dharma
धर्मविदुषाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootधर्मविद्वस्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Plural
इतिहासविदाम्of knowers of history/itihāsa
इतिहासविदाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootइतिहासविद्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Plural
तथाand likewise/also
तथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतथा

युधिछ्िर उवाच

Y
Yudhiṣṭhira
N
nṛpa (the king addressed)

Educational Q&A

The verse teaches the exceptional merit of anna-dāna (feeding others), especially when offered to learned and ethically grounded recipients. Such generosity is presented as a dharmic act that yields both worldly fulfillment and favorable post-mortem destiny, protecting one from hellish consequences and continued entanglement in saṁsāra.

Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and states a dharma-teaching: feeding a thousand Brahmins who are learned in Veda, nyāya, dharma, and itihāsa brings powerful spiritual and ethical results—success in this life and happiness after death.