Adhyaya 15 — Karmic Retribution: Rebirths After Naraka and the King’s Compassion in Hell
कलायान् कलमान् मुद्गान् गोधूमानतसीस्तथा । शस्यान्यन्यानि वा हृत्वा मोहाज्जन्तुरचेतनः ॥
kalāyāna kalamān mudgān godhūmānatasīstathā / śasyānyanyāni vā hṛtvā mohājjanturacetanaḥ
பட்டாணி, நெல்/அரிசி, பாசிப்பயறு, கோதுமை, ஆளி விதை அல்லது பிற பயிர்களை மயக்கத்தால் திருடுபவன் மந்த புத்தியுடைய உயிராகிறான்; அதன் குறிப்பிட்ட விலங்கு வடிவு அடுத்த செய்யுளில் சொல்லப்படுகிறது।
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Food and agriculture are sacralized as the basis of life and hospitality; stealing them is portrayed as a delusion that dulls consciousness and leads to degraded rebirth.
Dharma/karma-vipāka instruction, ancillary to pancalakṣaṇa categories.
The ‘loss of cetanā’ (discernment) is the inner meaning: repeated theft habituates the mind to grasping, which the text encodes as a fall into instinct-bound embodiment.