Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 131 Shloka 28 - Mahabharata | Telugu | Vedapath

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Shloka 28

Umā–Maheśvara-saṃvāda: Varṇa-bhraṃśa, Ācāra (Vṛtta), and Karmic Ascent/Decline

Devanagari script

स्त्रीघ्नैगोघ्नै: कृतध्नैश्ष ब्रह्मघ्नैर्गुरुतल्पगै: । तुल्यदोषो भवत्येभिययस्यातिथिरनर्चित:

Transliteration

strīghnair goghnaḥ kṛtadhnaiś ca brahmaghnair gurutalpagaiḥ | tulyadoṣo bhavaty eṣa yasya atithir anarcitaḥ ||

Translation

ఎవరి ఇంట అతిథికి పూజా-సత్కారం జరగదో, అతడు స్త్రీహంతకుడు, గోహంతకుడు, కృతఘ్నుడు, బ్రాహ్మణహంతకుడు, గురుపత్నీగామి—ఇవారితో సమానమైన దోషాన్ని పొందుతాడు।

Word by Word

स्त्रीघ्नैःby/with woman-killers

गोघ्नैःby/with cow-killers

कृतघ्नैःby/with the ungrateful

चand

ब्रह्मघ्नैःby/with brahmin-killers

गुरुतल्पगैःby/with those who violate the guru's bed (adulterers with the teacher's wife)

तुल्यदोषःhaving equal fault (equally sinful)

भवतिbecomes/is

एभिःwith these

यस्यof whom/whose

अतिथिःguest

अनर्चितःnot honored/worshipped

Speaker

धर्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Dharma

atithi (guest)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Failing to honor a guest (atithi) is treated as a serious violation of dharma, carrying guilt comparable to major sins; hospitality is presented as a sacred moral obligation, not mere social etiquette.

What is happening in the narrative?

Dharma is instructing about righteous conduct by listing extreme transgressions and declaring that neglecting a guest’s reception places a person in the same category of grave wrongdoing, thereby emphasizing the sanctity of atithi-satkāra.