Shloka 29
मांसपरिवर्जन-प्रशंसा (Praise of Abstention from Meat) / Ethics of Ahiṃsā in Diet and Rite
न याति नरकं घोरें संसारांश्व न सेवते । सर्वकामसमायुक्तः प्रेत्य चाप्यश्नुते सुखम्
na yāti narakaṃ ghore saṃsārāṃś ca na sevate | sarvakāmasamāyuktaḥ pretya cāpy aśnute sukham, nareśvara |
Sinabi ni Yudhiṣṭhira: “O hari, ang taong nagpapakain sa isang libong brāhmaṇa—na may kaalaman sa Veda, sa nyāya, sa dharma, at sa mga tradisyunal na kasaysayan—ay hindi napapasa impiyernong kakila-kilabot, ni nananatiling nakagapos sa ikot ng paglalagalag sa daigdig. Sa buhay na ito, natutupad ang kanyang mga pagnanasa; at pagkamatay, tinatamasa niya ang kaligayahan sa kabilang daigdig.”
युधिछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Generous hospitality—especially feeding learned and virtuous brāhmaṇas—is presented as a powerful dharmic act whose fruit is both worldly fulfillment and posthumous well-being, protecting one from hellish consequences and continued bondage to saṃsāra.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a king and states the spiritual and ethical reward of feeding a thousand brāhmaṇas learned in Veda, nyāya, dharma, and itihāsa, emphasizing the merit (puṇya) and auspicious afterlife results of such charity.