Shloka 9

Devanagari script

अनुक्रोशादधर्म च जयेद्‌ धर्ममवेक्षया । आयत्या च जयेदाशामर्थ संगविवर्जनात्‌,अधर्मको दयासे और धर्मको विचारपूर्वक पालन करनेसे जीते। भविष्यका विचार करके आशापर और आसत्तिके त्यागसे अर्थपर विजय प्राप्त करे

Transliteration

anukrośād adharmaṃ ca jayed dharmam avekṣayā | āyatyā ca jayed āśām artha-saṅga-vivarjanāt ||

Translation

Bhishma bersabda: Dengan welas asih, hendaknya seseorang menaklukkan dorongan menuju adharma; dan dengan memandang dharma sebagai pedoman, ia teguh dalam dharma. Dengan menimbang masa depan, ia menaklukkan harap dan hasrat; dengan meninggalkan keterikatan pada harta, ia memperoleh penguasaan atas tujuan-tujuan duniawi.

Word by Word

अनुक्रोशात्from compassion; out of pity

अधर्मम्unrighteousness; adharma

चand

जयेत्should conquer/overcome

धर्मम्righteousness; dharma

अवेक्षयाby consideration; with regard to

आयत्याby (thinking of) the future; with foresight

चand

जयेत्should conquer/overcome

आशाम्hope; desire

अर्थम्wealth; purpose; advantage

सङ्गविवर्जनात्from abandoning attachment; by freedom from clinging

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Cultivate compassion and keep dharma as the guiding standard; with foresight, restrain hope-driven craving and relinquish attachment to wealth, thereby gaining inner mastery over unrighteous impulses and material obsession.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on righteous living after the war. Here he offers a concise ethical discipline: compassion and dharma-checking to defeat adharma, and future-minded detachment to prevent wealth and desire from binding the mind.