Shloka 11
गोमूल्यनिर्णयः — The Determination of Value through the Cow
Nahuṣa–Cyavana Episode
शूद्रश्नाण्डालमत्युग्रं वध्यघ्नं बाह्वासिनम् । ब्राह्मण्यां सम्प्रजायन्त इत्येते कुलपांसना: । एते मतिमतां श्रेष्ठ वर्णसंकरजा: प्रभो
śūdraś caṇḍālam atyugraṃ vadhyaghnaṃ bāhvāsinam | brāhmaṇyāṃ samprajāyanta ity ete kulapāṃsanāḥ | ete matimatāṃ śreṣṭha varṇasaṅkarajāḥ prabho ||
Bhīṣma sprach: „Von einer Brāhmaṇī zeugt ein Śūdra einen überaus grimmigen Caṇḍāla—einen, der außerhalb der Siedlung lebt und zum Töten oder zur Vollstreckung an zum Tode Verurteilten eingesetzt wird. O Herr, Bester unter den Weisen! Solche Nachkommen, geboren aus der Verbindung eines niedrigen Mannes mit einer Brāhmaṇī, gelten als Befleckung einer Linie und heißen ‘aus Varṇa-Vermischung geboren’ (varṇa-saṅkara).“
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma presents a dharma-śāstra style warning that unions crossing prescribed varṇa boundaries—especially a ‘low’ man with a Brāhmaṇī—are said to produce socially stigmatized offspring termed varṇa-saṅkara, viewed as a blemish upon lineage and linked with marginal occupations.
In his instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and social norms, Bhīṣma lists types of offspring described in traditional classifications of mixed unions, here stating that a Śūdra with a Brāhmaṇī produces a Caṇḍāla who lives outside the village and performs executions.