Shloka 21
Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)
शौचाचारसमायुक्तान् जितक्रोधान् जितेन्द्रियान् । वेदानध्यापयामास महाभारतपञ्चमान्
śaucācārasamāyuktān jitakrodhān jitendriyān | vedān adhyāpayāmāsa mahābhāratapañcamān ||
বৈশম্পায়ন বললেন—শৌচ ও সদাচারে যুক্ত, ক্রোধজয়ী ও ইন্দ্রিয়জয়ী সেই শিষ্যদের তিনি বেদ অধ্যয়ন করালেন—মহাভারতকে পঞ্চম বেদরূপে গণ্য করে।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
True learning is grounded in character: purity (śauca), right conduct (ācāra), mastery over anger, and control of the senses qualify a student to receive sacred instruction. Knowledge is presented as inseparable from ethical discipline.
Vaiśampāyana reports that a teacher instructed worthy, self-controlled students in the Vedas, and also taught the Mahābhārata as an additional authoritative body of dharma-teaching—figuratively ‘the fifth’ alongside the Vedas.