Shloka 14
Bhīṣma’s Counsel on Reconciliation and Partition (भीष्मोपदेशः—संधि-राज्यविभागविचारः)
श्रूयते हि पुराणेडपि जटिला नाम गौतमी । ऋषीनध्यासितवती सप्त धर्मभूतां वरा
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca — śrūyate hi purāṇeṣv api jaṭilā nāma gautamī; ṛṣīn adhyāsitavatī sapta dharmabhūtān varā.
ユディシュティラは言った。「まことに、プラーナにもこう伝えられている。ガウタマの系譜にジャティラーという名の乙女がいて—正法に生きる者のうち最も勝れ—七人のリシ（聖仙）を夫として受け入れたという。ゆえに、この婚姻へと向かう我が心の傾きは、いかなる意味でもダルマに背くものではない。」
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Yudhiṣṭhira argues that dharma is clarified by authoritative precedent: when an action appears ethically complex, one may appeal to well-known traditional accounts (here, a Purāṇic example) to show that the act can still be within dharma.
Yudhiṣṭhira defends the moral legitimacy of a proposed marriage by citing a traditional story: Jaṭilā of the Gautama lineage is said to have married seven sages, implying that such an arrangement has precedent among the righteous.