Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, Shloka 130
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
स्त्रियो5प्येतेन कल्पेन कृत्वा पापमवाप्रुयु: । एतेषामेव जनन््तूनां भार्यात्वमुपयान्ति ता:
striyo 'py etena kalpena kṛtvā pāpam avāpnuyuḥ | eteṣām eva jantūnāṃ bhāryātvam upayānti tāḥ ||
Yudhiṣṭhira nói: “Ngay cả phụ nữ, nếu phạm tội theo cách ấy, cũng trở thành kẻ cùng chia phần tội lỗi. Và họ sẽ làm vợ chính những chúng sinh ấy—những kẻ phải gánh chịu quả báo của việc làm sai trái đó.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral agency and karmic accountability apply to women as well: if one participates in wrongdoing, one shares its demerit, and karmic affinity can shape one’s relational outcomes (such as marriage) with those bound to similar consequences.
In a dharma-discourse context, Yudhiṣṭhira articulates a principle of ethical causality: women who engage in the previously described sinful conduct also incur sin and become connected—here expressed through marriage—to the very beings who must experience the results of that sin.