Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, Shloka 95
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
भारत! वह दण्ड, मुद्गर और शूलकी चोट खाकर दारुण अग्निकुम्भ (कुम्भीपाक), असिपत्रवन, तपी हुई भयंकर बालू, काँटोंसे भरी हुई शाल्मली आदि नरकोंमें कष्ट भोगता है। यमलोकमें पहुँचकर इन ऊपर बताये हुए तथा और भी बहुत-से नरकोंकी भयंकर यातनाएँ भोगकर वह वहाँ यमदूतोंद्वारा पीटा जाता है ।।
tato hataḥ kṛtadhnaḥ sa tatrograir bharatarṣabha | saṃsāracakram āsādya kṛmiyonau prajāyate ||
婆罗多啊！他遭刑杖、巨槌与长矛击打，又在诸般可怖地狱中受苦：如火釜地狱（Kumbhīpāka）、剑叶之林、炽热骇人的沙地、荆棘密布的娑罗摩梨之境，等等。抵达阎摩之界后，受尽上述以及更多地狱的惨烈刑罚，复被阎摩使者鞭挞殴击。随后，那忘恩负义之人被凶猛的阎摩使者所杀——婆罗多族之雄啊——又回到轮回之轮，投生为虫类之胎。
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ingratitude (kṛtadghnatā) is treated as a serious adharma: one who fails to acknowledge and repay benefaction incurs severe karmic consequences, including torment in Yama’s realm and a degrading rebirth, illustrating that moral debts and gratitude are central to righteous conduct.
The speaker describes the post-mortem fate of a kṛtadhna: after suffering punishments in terrifying hells and being beaten by Yama’s attendants, he is forced back into the cycle of transmigration and is reborn in a low form of life (as a worm).