Shloka 10

Dvaipāyana–Kīṭa Saṃvāda: Karmic Memory, Fear of Death, and Embodied Pleasure

Devanagari script

न भक्षयन्त्यतो मांसं तपोयुक्ता मनीषिण: । दोषांस्तु भक्षणे राजन्‌ मांसस्येह निबोध मे

Transliteration

na bhakṣayanty ato māṁsaṁ tapoyuktā manīṣiṇaḥ | doṣāṁs tu bhakṣaṇe rājan māṁsasy eha nibodha me ||

Translation

ビーマは言った。「ゆえに、苦行（タパス）に身を捧げる識者は肉を食さぬ。王よ、今この世において肉食に伴う過失を、わたしから聞いて悟れ—よく聞け。」

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• भक्षयन्ति: they eat
• Type: Verb
• Root: भक्ष्
• Form: Lat (present indicative), 3, plural, Parasmaipada

• अतः: therefore
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अतः

• मांसम्: meat
• मांसम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मांस
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• तपोयुक्ताः: endowed with austerity / engaged in tapas
• तपोयुक्ताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तपोयुक्त
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• मनीषिणः: wise men
• मनीषिणः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनीषिन्
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• दोषान्: faults
• दोषान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दोष
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• भक्षणे: in eating / in consumption
• भक्षणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भक्षण
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• मांसस्य: of meat
• Type: Noun
• Root: मांस
• Form: neuter, genitive, singular

• इह: here
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह

• निबोध: understand / learn
• Type: Verb
• Root: बुध्
• Form: Lot (imperative), 2, singular, Parasmaipada

• मे: of me / my
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: genitive, singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• King (Yudhishthira)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhishma links spiritual discipline (tapas) and ethical discernment with abstaining from meat, and he frames meat-eating as carrying moral defects that he is about to enumerate.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Anushasana Parva’s instruction section, Bhishma addresses the king (Yudhishthira), transitioning into a detailed critique of meat consumption by announcing that he will explain its faults.