Shloka 35

Devanagari script

यो हि पापसमारम्भे कार्ये तदभावभावित: । कुर्वन्नपि तथैव स्यात्‌ कृत्वा च निरपत्रप:,जो पुरुष हृदयमें पापकी भावना रखकर किसी पापकर्ममें प्रवृत्त होता है, उसे करते हुए भी उसी भावनासे भावित रहता है तथा पापकर्म करनेके पश्चात्‌ भी लज्जित नहीं होता, उसमें वह सारा पाप पूर्णरूपसे प्रतिष्ठित हो जाता है, ऐसा शास्त्रका कथन है। उसकेलिये कोई प्रायश्रित्त नहीं है तथा प्रायश्चित्तसे भी उसके पापकर्मका नाश नहीं होता है

Transliteration

yo hi pāpasamārambhe kārye tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ | kurvann api tathaiva syāt kṛtvā ca nirapatrapaḥ ||

Translation

毗耶娑说道：若一人以罪念充塞其心而发动罪业，则在行罪之时亦为同一恶意所系；作毕之后，又全无羞惭。经典宣示：在此人身上，罪垢已圆满成就、牢固安住。对他而言，并无赎罪之道；即便行诸忏悔与赎罪仪轨，也不能灭除其恶行之污痕。

Word by Word

यःwho

हिindeed/for

पाप-समारम्भेin the undertaking of sin

कार्येin an act/deed

तद्-अभाव-भावितःimbued with that (sinful) disposition/absence-of-remorse

कुर्वन्doing/while doing

अपिeven/also

तथाthus/in that manner

एवindeed/just

स्यात्would be/remains

कृत्वाhaving done

चand

निरपत्रपःshameless/unabashed

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Sin becomes firmly rooted when a person begins a wrongful act with deliberate sinful intent and remains unashamed afterward; such shameless, intention-driven wrongdoing is said to be beyond the reach of ordinary expiation.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and conduct, Vyāsa states a principle about culpability: inner intention and the absence of remorse determine how deeply sin adheres, and he warns that ritual atonement is ineffective when there is no shame or moral turning.