Shloka 64
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
ततो दूतॊ यमस्याशु पाशैर्बध्नाति दारुणैः ।
दण्डप्रहारसम्भ्रान्तं कर्षते दक्षिणां दिशम् ॥
tato dūto yamasyāśu pāśair badhnāti dāruṇaiḥ /
daṇḍaprahārasambhrāntaṃ karṣate dakṣiṇāṃ diśam
அப்போது யமனின் தூதன் விரைவாக அவனை அச்சமூட்டும் பாசங்களால் கட்டுகிறான்; தண்ட அடிகளால் மயங்கியவனாய் அவன் தெற்கு திசை நோக்கி இழுக்கப்படுகிறான்।
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FAQs
The imagery of binding and coercion underscores moral accountability: one who ignores dharma may be compelled, unwillingly, into the consequences of his deeds.
Didactic dharma material (karmaphala/afterlife description), not a pancalakṣaṇa genealogical-cosmological segment.
The ‘southern direction’ functions symbolically as the descent into limitation and reckoning; the noose and staff represent binding by one’s own karmic bonds and the corrective force of dharma.