Shloka 30
Gautama–Śakra Saṃvāda: Karma, Loka-bheda, and the Restoration of the Elephant
धृतराष्ट उवाच ये दानशीला न प्रतिगृह्नते सदा नचाप्यर्थाक्षाददते परेभ्य: | येषामदेयमर्हते नास्ति किंचित् सर्वातिथ्या: सुप्रसादा जनाश्व
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | ye dānaśīlā na pratigṛhṇate sadā na cāpy arthākṣād adate parebhyaḥ | yeṣām adeyam arhate nāsti kiñcit sarvātithyāḥ suprasādā janāś ca ||
ドリタラーシュトラは言った。「大聖よ。施しに励み、決して施しを受け取らず、他者の財を力や強制によって奪わず、ふさわしい受け手があれば『与えてはならぬ』とするものが何一つなく、あらゆる客人を敬ってもてなし、万人に慈しみを向ける者たち——そのような人々は、常に公の施食（アンナサトラ）として生き、功徳の源となって、ソーマの世界に至る。だがドリタラーシュトラは、たとえその境地であっても到達できぬ。」
धृतराष्ट उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse praises a dharmic ideal: give consistently, do not accept gifts for oneself, do not seize others’ wealth, and treat every person as a guest with kindness. Such conduct generates puṇya leading to heavenly attainment (Somaloka), while moral failure can bar one even from that reward.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra addresses a great sage and reflects on the destiny of the truly charitable and hospitable. In the surrounding discourse of Anuśāsana Parva, this functions as an ethical evaluation of conduct and its posthumous results, with Dhṛtarāṣṭra implicitly contrasting himself with the praised ideal.