Shloka 3
Adhyāya 59: On Giving to the Asker and Supporting the Non-asking (याचक-अयाचक-दाने धर्मः)
क्षत्रियाश्व भूगून् सर्वान् वधिष्यन्ति नराधिप । आ गर्भादनुकृन्तन्तो दैवदण्डनिपीडिता:
kṣatriyāś ca bhṛgūn sarvān vadhiṣyanti narādhipa | ā garbhād anukṛntanto daivadaṇḍanipīḍitāḥ ||
Vyavavana nói: “Tâu đại vương, các Kṣatriya sẽ giết sạch mọi người thuộc dòng Bhṛgu. Bị sức ép của sự báo ứng thần linh dồn ép, họ sẽ chém giết không nương tay—kể cả từ trong bụng mẹ.”
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The verse highlights how collective violence can be portrayed as driven by daiva (fated/divine chastisement), warning that when adharma ripens into retribution, it can become indiscriminate and extreme—raising ethical alarm about vengeance that violates basic human and dharmic limits.
The speaker foretells a massacre: Kṣatriyas will attack the Bhṛgu lineage and, under the compulsion of “divine punishment,” will slaughter them utterly, described hyperbolically as extending even to those still in the womb.