Shloka 10

नारद–असित (देवल) संवादः — भूतप्रभवाप्यय, इन्द्रिय-गुण-विवेक, क्षेत्रज्ञ-तत्त्व

Devanagari script

तपस्विनो धृतिमन्तः श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुष: । सर्वमार्ष हि मन्यन्ते व्याहृतं विदितात्मन:,“तपस्वी, धैर्यवान्‌, वेद एवं विज्ञानरूप दृष्टिवाले ऋषिमुनि वेदको नित्यज्ञानसम्पन्न परमेश्वरकी नि:श्वासभूत वाणी मानते हैं

Transliteration

tapasvino dhṛtimantaḥ śrutivijñānacakṣuṣaḥ | sarvam ārṣaṃ hi manyante vyāhṛtaṃ viditātmanaḥ ||

Translation

قال بهيشما: إن الزهّاد الثابتين—الذين تُبصر عيونهم بنور الشروتي (śruti) وبصيرة العلم الحق—يرون كل ما هو «آرْشَ» (ārṣa، المنسوب إلى الرِّشيّات) كلامًا مُعلَنًا على لسان من تحقّق بمعرفة الذات؛ وحيًا قائمًا على علمٍ مُدرَك، لا اختراعًا بشريًا.

Word by Word

तपस्विनःascetics

धृतिमन्तःsteadfast, endowed with fortitude

श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुषःhaving the eye of scriptural learning and discriminative knowledge

सर्वम्everything

ऋषयःsages

हिindeed, for

मन्यन्तेthey think/consider

व्याहृतम्uttered, spoken forth

विदितात्मनःof the self-realized one (whose self is known)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

tapasvin (ascetics)

Ṛ

ṛṣi (seers)

śruti (Vedic revelation)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Those grounded in austerity, fortitude, and Vedic-discernment treat ṛṣi-origin sacred utterance as authoritative because it is understood as the proclamation of Self-realized insight, not merely a human composition.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and right knowledge, Bhīṣma explains how wise ascetics evaluate the status of sacred speech: they accept ‘ārṣa’ revelation as the utterance of realized seers, thereby establishing a basis for scriptural authority.