Shloka 26
अग्राह्य-ज्ञातिसंबन्धमण्डल-विवेचनम् / Managing Unreadable Kinship Networks: Vāsudeva–Nārada on Cohesion
नान्यत्र बुद्धिक्षान्तिभ्यां नान्यत्रेन्द्रियनिग्रहात् । नान्यत्र धनसंत्यागाद् गण: प्राज्ञेडवतिष्ठते
nānyatra buddhikṣāntibhyāṃ nānyatrendriyanigrahāt | nānyatra dhana-saṃtyāgād gaṇaḥ prājñeḍa vatiṣṭhate ||
Nārada dit : Une communauté de sages véritables ne tient ferme par aucun autre moyen que l’intelligence claire jointe à la patience, la maîtrise des sens et le renoncement aux richesses. C’est par ces disciplines que les savants demeurent stables et que la société est maintenue dans le dharma.
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Stability in the wise—and in a wise community—rests on three supports: discernment with patience (buddhi and kṣānti), restraint of the senses (indriya-nigraha), and renunciation of wealth (dhana-saṃtyāga). Without these, wisdom and social harmony do not endure.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma after the war, Nārada delivers a didactic statement emphasizing the inner disciplines that sustain the learned and their assemblies, presenting ethical self-mastery and non-attachment as the foundation of lasting order.