Shloka 7
अध्याय २९७ — श्रेयः, धृति, दान-नियमाः
Welfare, Steadfastness, and Norms of Giving
पापात् पापसमाचारान्निहीनाच्च नराधिप । पाप एव वध: प्रोक्तो नरकायेति निश्चय:
pāpāt pāpasamācārān nihīnāc ca narādhipa | pāpa eva vadhaḥ prokto narakāyeti niścayaḥ ||
Парашара сказал: О царь, если человек сражён рукой грешника, привыкшего к греховным делам и нравственно падшего, то само это убийство объявляется по природе своей грехом; оно несомненно ведёт в ад — таков твёрдый вывод шастр.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the moral quality of an act of killing is affected by the killer’s character: when the slayer is sinful and degraded, the killing is classified as sinful and is said to result in hell, according to śāstric judgment.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma, the sage Parāśara addresses a king and lays down a doctrinal rule about the ethical consequences of being killed by a sinful person, emphasizing the śāstric certainty of its karmic result.