Shloka 33
Ārjava, Satya, and the Virocana–Sudhanvan Exemplum
Udyoga-parva 35
यश्न नो ब्राह्मणान् हन्याद् यश्न नो ब्राह्मणान् द्विषेत् । न नः स समितिं गच्छेद् यश्व नो निर्वपेत् पितृनू
yaś ca no brāhmaṇān hanyād yaś ca no brāhmaṇān dviṣet | na naḥ sa samitiṁ gacched yaś ca no nirvapet pitṝn ||
Siapa pun di antara kita yang membunuh Brahmana, yang memendam kebencian terhadap Brahmana, dan yang tidak mempersembahkan upacara leluhur bagi para pitara—orang seperti itu jangan datang ke sidang kita.
विदुर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Public deliberation and political participation require moral fitness: one who harms or hates Brahmins, or neglects obligatory ancestral offerings, is unfit to join the community’s council.
Vidura is laying down a normative rule for the Kuru assembly, defining who should be excluded from the council based on grave violations of dharma—violence toward Brahmins, hostility toward them, and neglect of pitṛ-obligations.