Shloka 65

तीर्थवंशोपदेशः

Tīrtha-vaṃśa Upadeśa: Instruction on the Fruits of Sacred Waters

Devanagari script

वृत्तिच्छेदं गृहच्छेदं दारच्छेदं च भारत । मित्रच्छेदं तथा55शायास्ते वै निरयगामिन:

Transliteration

vṛtticchedaṁ gṛhacchedaṁ dāracchedaṁ ca bhārata | mitracchedaṁ tathāśāyās te vai nirayagāminaḥ ||

Translation

毗湿摩说道：“噢，婆罗多啊，凡断人衣食生计、毁人家宅、离间夫妇、挑拨朋友、粉碎他人希望者——此等之人必定堕入地狱。”

Word by Word

• वृत्तिच्छेदम्: cutting off livelihood
• वृत्तिच्छेदम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृत्ति-छेद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• गृहच्छेदम्: destroying a household/home
• गृहच्छेदम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गृह-छेद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• दारच्छेदम्: separating spouses (breaking marriage)
• दारच्छेदम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दार-छेद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• भारत: O Bharata
• Type: Noun
• Root: भारत
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• मित्रच्छेदम्: breaking friendships / causing breach between friends
• मित्रच्छेदम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मित्र-छेद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• तथा: likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• आशायाः: of (someone's) hope
• Type: Noun
• Root: आशा
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Singular

• छेदम्: cutting off / destroying
• छेदम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: छेद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• ते: they
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• वै: indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै

• निरयगामिनः: hell-going / destined for hell
• निरयगामिनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निरय-गामिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Bhārata (Yudhiṣṭhira as addressee)
• Niraya (hell)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Deliberately harming the foundations of another person’s life—income, home, marriage, friendships, and hope—is a grave adharma with severe karmic consequence, described here as leading to niraya (hell).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and moral conduct. This verse lists specific social harms and warns of their spiritual and posthumous consequences.