Adhyaya 15 — Karmic Retribution: Rebirths After Naraka and the King’s Compassion in Hell
कलायान् कलमान् मुद्गान् गोधूमानतसीस्तथा । शस्यान्यन्यानि वा हृत्वा मोहाज्जन्तुरचेतनः ॥
kalāyāna kalamān mudgān godhūmānatasīstathā / śasyānyanyāni vā hṛtvā mohājjanturacetanaḥ
Trộm đậu Hà Lan, gạo (lúa thóc), đậu xanh, lúa mì, cây lanh (flax) hay các hoa màu khác—do mê muội—người ấy trở thành loài hữu tình vô tri (hình dạng cụ thể sẽ nêu ở câu kế).
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Food and agriculture are sacralized as the basis of life and hospitality; stealing them is portrayed as a delusion that dulls consciousness and leads to degraded rebirth.
Dharma/karma-vipāka instruction, ancillary to pancalakṣaṇa categories.
The ‘loss of cetanā’ (discernment) is the inner meaning: repeated theft habituates the mind to grasping, which the text encodes as a fall into instinct-bound embodiment.