Shloka 23
मोक्षोपाय-निर्णयः
Determination of the Means to Liberation
वह तो मरघटमें जाकर मृत शरीरसे चिह्नभूत वस्त्र आदि उतार लाता है और देवताओंकी सम्पत्तिको भी लूट लेता है। जिनकी बुद्धि मारी गयी है, उन डाकुओंपर जो कोई विश्वास करता है, वह मूर्ख है ।।
humatsena uvāca: sa tu śmaśānaṁ gatvā mṛtaśarīrāt cihnabhūtāni vastrādīni apaharati, devatānāṁ sampattim api luṇṭhati. yeṣāṁ buddhir hatā, teṣu dasyuṣu yaḥ kaścid viśvasiti sa mūḍhaḥ. satyavān uvāca: tān na śaknoṣi cet sādhūn paritrātum ahiṁsayā, kasyacid bhūtabhavyasya lābhena antaṁ tathā kuru.
胡玛特塞那说：“他甚至去到火葬场，从尸身上剥下用以识别的衣物等物，又连诸神之财也敢劫掠。谁若信任这等盗贼——心智已毁之人——便是愚者。” 萨提亚梵答道：“父亲！若您不杀盗贼便不能护持善人——若您不能以不害（ahimsa）将那些强盗教化为正人并保全其命——那么，就当以他们过去、现在与未来的真实福祉为念，用某种相称之法，终结他们，或终结他们的盗贼之业。”
हुमत्सेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Non-violence is ideal, but a ruler’s duty to protect the righteous remains paramount; if reform through ahiṁsā is not possible, one should end the harm—aiming at the wrongdoer’s long-term welfare—by an appropriate, dharmic measure.
Humatsena condemns the extreme impiety of bandits who steal even from corpses and from divine property, warning against trusting them. Satyavān then urges his father to protect good people: either reform the robbers without violence, or otherwise stop them decisively, with their ultimate welfare in view.