Shloka 27
राजधर्मप्रश्नः — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Inquiry into Rājadharma (Śānti-parva 56)
एवं चैव नरव्यात्र लोकत्रयविघातका: । निग्राह्मा एव सततं बाहुभ्यां ये स्युरीदूशा:,पुरुषसिंह! यद्यपि ऐसी बात है, तथापि यदि ब्राह्मण भी तीनों लोकोंका विनाश करनेके लिये उद्यत हो जायेँ तो ऐसे लोगोंको अपने बाहु-बलसे परास्त करके सदा नियमन्त्रणमें ही रखना चाहिये
evaṃ caiva naravyāghra lokatraya-vighātakāḥ | nigrahyaiva satataṃ bāhubhyāṃ ye syur īdṛśāḥ puruṣasiṃha ||
Bhishma dijo: «Asimismo, oh tigre entre los hombres: aun si un brahmán se alzara con la intención de arruinar los tres mundos, a tal persona —si es de esa índole— hay que someterla con la fuerza del brazo y mantenerla siempre bajo control.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Status or caste does not exempt one from restraint when one becomes a threat to universal welfare; the ruler’s duty is protection of the world-order, even if that requires forceful subjugation of a would-be destroyer.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction on rājadharma in the Śānti Parva, he addresses the listener as ‘naravyāghra/puruṣasiṃha’ and states that even a brāhmaṇa, if bent on catastrophic harm, should be overpowered and kept under control for the sake of the three worlds.