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
پھر یم کا قاصد جلدی سے اسے ہولناک پھندوں سے باندھ دیتا ہے؛ لاٹھی کے واروں سے حواس باختہ ہو کر وہ جنوب کی سمت گھسیٹا جاتا ہے۔
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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.