Shloka 70
Adhyāya 166: Kṛtaghna-doṣa (कृतघ्नदोषः) — the fault of ingratitude and the limits of expiation
परिवेत्ता प्रयच्छेत तां स्नुषां परिवित्तये । ज्येछेन त्वभ्यनुज्ञातो यवीयानप्यनन्तरम् । एवं च मोक्षमाप्रोति तौ च सा चैव धर्मत:
parivettā prayacchet tāṁ snuṣāṁ parivittaye | jyeṣṭhena tv abhyanujñāto yavīyān apy anantaram || evaṁ ca mokṣam āpnoti tau ca sā caiva dharmataḥ |
ভীষ্মে ক’লে—জ্যেষ্ঠ ভ্ৰাতা থাকোঁতেই আগতে বিবাহ কৰা কনিষ্ঠ ভ্ৰাতা (পৰিবেত্তা) সেই বধূক জোঁৱাই-বোৱাৰীৰূপে বঞ্চিত জ্যেষ্ঠ ভ্ৰাতালৈ (পৰিবিত্ত) সমৰ্পণ কৰিব। তাৰ পাছত জ্যেষ্ঠৰ অনুমতি পালে কনিষ্ঠ ভ্ৰাতাই ক্ৰমে তাক পত্নীৰূপে গ্ৰহণ কৰিব পাৰে। এইদৰে ধৰ্মানুসাৰে আচৰণ কৰিলে সেই দুজন ভ্ৰাতা আৰু সেই নাৰী—তিনিও—দোষমুক্ত হয়।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a dharmic remedy for the social and moral fault incurred when a younger brother marries before the elder: the younger should transfer the bride to the elder (the one bypassed), and only with the elder’s consent may the younger later marry her, so that all involved are cleared of blame according to dharma.
In Shanti Parva’s instruction on dharma, Bhishma outlines a specific rule concerning family marriage order. He describes the roles of parivettā (the younger who married first) and parivitta (the elder bypassed) and prescribes a corrective sequence—handover, elder’s acceptance/permission, and only then the younger’s subsequent marriage—framed as removing pāpa-doṣa for the three parties.