Blessing and curse, pleasure and pain, righteousness and unrighteousness strength and weakness, fortune and misfortune, merit and demerit, virtue and fault, liking and disliking, season and month, night and day and hour, carefulness and carelessness, joy and anger, peace and self-control, destiny and manliness, salvation and damnation, fear and intrepidity, injury and abstention from injury, penances and sacrifice and rigid abstinence, poison and wholesome food, the beginning, the middle, and the end, the result of all murderous acts, insolence, insanity, arrogance, pride, patience, policy, impolicy, powerlessness and power, respect, disrespect decay and firmness, humility, tharity, fitness of time and unfitness of time, falsehood, wisdom, truth, belief, disbelief, importance, trade, profit, loss, success, defeat, fierceness, mildness, death, acquisition and non-acquisition, agreement, and disagreement, what would be done and what should not be done, strength and weakness, malice and good will, righteousness and unrighteousness, shame and shamelessness, modesty, prosperity, and adversity, energy, acts, learning, eloquence, keenness of understanding,—all these, O Yudhishthira, are forms of Punishment in this world. Therefore, punishment has many forms.
अर्थानौँ सुखं दुःखं धर्माधर्मों बलाबले। दौर्भाग्यं भागधेयं च पुण्यापुण्ये गुणागुणौ॥ कामाकामावृतुर्मासः शर्वरी दिवसः क्षणः। अप्रमादः प्रमादश्च हर्षक्रोधौ शमो दमः॥ दैवं पुरुषकारच मोक्षामोक्षौ भयाभये। हिंसाहिसे तपो यज्ञः संयमोऽथ विषाविषम्॥ अन्तश्चादिश्च मध्यं च कृत्यानां च प्रपञ्चनम्। मदः प्रमादो दर्पश्च दम्भो धैर्यं नयानयौ॥ अशक्तिः शक्तिरित्येवं मानस्तम्भौ व्ययाव्ययौ। विनयश्च विसर्गश्च कालाकालौ च भारत॥ अनृतं ज्ञानिता सत्यं श्रद्धाश्रद्धे तथैव च। क्लीबता व्यवसायश्च लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ॥ तीक्ष्णता मृदुता मृत्युरागमानागमौ तथा। विरोधशाविरोधश्च कार्याकार्य बलाबले॥ असूया चानसूया च धर्माधर्मों तथैव च। अपत्रपानपत्रपे ह्रीश्च सम्पद्विपत्पदम्॥ तेजः कर्माणि पाण्डित्यं वाक्शक्तिस्तत्त्वबुद्धिता। एवं दण्डस्य कौरव्य लोकेऽस्मिन् बहुरूपता॥