Shloka 13
अहिंसयित्वा ब्रह्महत्याविधानम् / Brahmahatyā incurred without physical violence
अग्निर॒ुवाच अधीयान: पण्डितं मन्यमानो यो विद्यया हन्ति यश: परेषाम् | प्रभ्रश्यतेडसौ चरते न सत्यं लोकास्तस्य हारान्तवन्तो भवन्ति
agnir uvāca: adhīyānaḥ paṇḍitaṃ manyamāno yo vidyayā hanti yaśaḥ pareṣām | prabhraśyate ’sau carate na satyaṃ lokās tasya hārāntavanto bhavanti ||
阿耆尼说道：“有人虽已研习，却自以为大贤大智，因学识而生傲慢；又凭此学识之力毁坏他人美名——此人便从法中坠落，不行于真实之道。因此，他所到达的诸界皆为无常，终归败落。”
काश्यप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Learning becomes spiritually harmful when it turns into arrogance and is used to undermine others. Such misuse causes a fall from dharma and satya, leading to inferior, impermanent results.
Agni delivers a moral instruction: he criticizes the conceited scholar who weaponizes knowledge to ruin others’ fame, and he states the karmic consequence—decline from righteousness and attainment of perishable realms.