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Shloka 14

Dāyavibhāga (Inheritance Apportionment) and Household Precedence — Dialogue of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīṣma

Devanagari script

श्रेष्ठ पुरुष ब्राह्मणका शूद्र-कन्याके गर्भसे संतान उत्पन्न करना अच्छा नहीं मानते। शूद्राके गर्भसे संतान उत्पन्न करनेवाला ब्राह्मण प्रायश्चित्तका भागी होता है ।।

Transliteration

triṁśadvarṣo daśavarṣāṁ bhāryāṁ vindeta nāgnikām | ekaviṁśativarṣo vā saptavarṣām avāpnuyāt ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「三十歳の男は、まだ月経の始まらぬ十歳の少女を妻として迎えるべきである。あるいは二十一歳の男は、七歳の少女を婚姻によって得てもよい。」

Word by Word

त्रिंशद्वर्षःa thirty-year-old (man)

दशवर्षाम्a ten-year-old (girl)

भार्याम्wife

विन्देतshould obtain / should marry

नग्निकाम्a pre-menstrual girl (not yet menstruating)

एकविंशतिवर्षःa twenty-one-year-old (man)

वाor

सप्तवर्षाम्a seven-year-old (girl)

अवाप्नुयात्should obtain / should marry

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

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?

It presents a normative rule (as Bhishma’s instruction on dharma) about socially sanctioned ages for marriage, specifying a man’s age and a very young bride’s age, with the condition that the girl is pre-menarchal.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anushasana Parva, Bhishma is delivering extended teachings on dharma to Yudhishthira; this verse occurs within that instructional setting as a prescriptive statement about marriage practice.