Shloka 13
कपिलगोसंवादे गृहस्थ-त्यागधर्मयोः प्रमाण्यविचारः
Kapila–Cow Dialogue: Authority of Householder and Renunciant Dharmas
भीष्म उवाच अतीव तपसा युक्तो घोरेण स बभूव ह । तथोपस्पर्शनरत:ः सायं प्रातर्महातपा:
bhīṣma uvāca | atīva tapasā yukto ghoreṇa sa babhūva ha | tathopasparśana-rataḥ sāyaṃ prātar mahā-tapāḥ |
قال بهيشما: لقد غدا حقًّا ناسكًا مهيبًا، إذ كان موفور الحظ من تَقَشُّفٍ بالغ الشدة. وكان ذلك الممارس العظيم مولعًا بالتطهّر الطقسي—يغتسل ويؤدي شعائر المساء والصباح بانتظامٍ منضبط—صورةً للثبات في ضبط النفس والوفاء بواجبات مرحلة ساكن الغابة (فانابراستا).
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights dharma expressed as disciplined daily practice: severe tapas combined with regular purificatory observances (morning and evening). Ethical strength is shown not by display but by steady adherence to prescribed duties and self-restraint.
Bhishma begins describing an exemplary ascetic (Jājali in the immediate context), emphasizing how intensely he practiced austerity and how consistently he performed daily purificatory rites at dawn and dusk.