Shloka 80
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
रौरवे कूटसाक्षी तु याति यश्चानृतो नरः ।
तस्य स्वरूपं गदतो रौरवस्य निशामय ॥
raurave kūṭasākṣī tu yāti yaścānṛto naraḥ /
tasya svarūpaṃ gadato rauravasya niśāmaya
Kẻ làm chứng gian và người nói lời dối trá sẽ đi đến Raurava. Nay hãy lắng nghe ta thuật về hình tướng của Raurava (địa ngục) ấy.
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FAQs
Truthfulness is treated as a pillar of dharma with social consequences; perjury and lying corrode justice and thus incur severe post-mortem retribution (Raurava).
Dharma-śikṣā (ethical instruction) and naraka taxonomy; not part of the five hallmark categories as a primary unit.
Raurava functions as a moral archetype: the ‘roaring’ torment mirrors the inner dissonance and fear produced by falsifying truth—an inversion of ṛta (cosmic order).