Shloka 63

Sabhā Parva, Adhyāya 68 — Pāṇḍavānāṃ Vanavāsa-prasthānaḥ; Duḥśāsana-nindā; Pāṇḍava-pratijñāḥ

Devanagari script

यो हि प्रश्न॑ न विब्रूयाद्‌ धर्मदर्शी सभां गतः । अनृते या फलावाप्तिस्तस्या: सो<र्थ समश्षुते,जो धर्मज्ञ पुरुष सभामें जाकर वहाँ उपस्थित हुए प्रश्नका उत्तर नहीं देता, वह झूठ बोलनेके आधे फलका भागी होता है

Transliteration

yo hi praśnaṃ na vibrūyād dharmadarśī sabhāṃ gataḥ | anṛte yā phalāvāptis tasyāḥ so 'rthaṃ samaśnute ||

Translation

Vidura says: If a person who can discern dharma enters an assembly and yet does not answer a question put before him, he incurs a share of the consequence that belongs to falsehood—he partakes, as it were, in half the fruit of lying.

Word by Word

यःwho

हिindeed/for

प्रश्नम्question

नnot

विब्रूयात्should answer/say

धर्मदर्शीone who sees/knows dharma

सभाम्assembly

गतःgone/entered

अनृतेin falsehood/with a lie

याwhich

फलावाप्तिःattainment of (its) result

तस्याःof that (falsehood/result)

सःhe

अर्धम्half

समश्नुतेobtains/partakes

Speaker

विदुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vidura

sabhā (assembly/court)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

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