Shloka 5
अरण्यवृत्ति-वैराग्योपदेशः | Forest Discipline and the Program of Non-Attachment
जुद्वानोडग्निं यथाकालमुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन् | कृश: परिमिताहारश्चर्मचीरजटाधर:,दोनों समय स्नान करके यथासमय अग्निहोत्र करूँगा और परिमित आहार करके शरीरको दुर्बल कर दूँगा। मृगचर्म तथा वल्कल वस्त्र धारण करके सिरपर जटा रखूँगा
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | juhvāno 'gnim yathākālam ubhau kālāv upaspṛśan | kṛśaḥ parimitāhāraś carmacīrajāṭādharaḥ ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Bathing at both prescribed times and offering the sacred fire oblations at the proper hours, I shall live on measured food until my body grows lean. Wearing a deer-skin and bark-garments, and bearing matted locks upon my head, I will adopt the disciplined life of austerity.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes disciplined dharma through regulated daily rites (purification and agnihotra) and restraint (measured diet, ascetic attire), presenting self-control and ritual order as ethical means to inner purification.
Yudhiṣṭhira declares his intention to adopt an ascetic regimen: bathing at the two daily ritual times, maintaining the fire-offering at the proper hours, eating sparingly to become lean, and wearing the traditional marks of a renunciant (deer-skin, bark garments, and matted hair).