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Shloka 25

गोमूल्यनिर्णयः — The Determination of Value through the Cow

Nahuṣa–Cyavana Episode

वही पापिष्ठा स्त्री जब चाण्डालसे समागम करती है तब पुल्कस जातिको जन्म देती है। पुल्कस गधे, घोड़े और हाथीके मांस खाते हैं। वे मुर्दोपर चढ़े हुए कफन लेकर पहनते और फूटे बर्तनमें भोजन करते हैं ।।

āyogavīṣu jāyante hīṇavarṇās tu te trayaḥ | kṣudro vaidehakād andhro bahigrāmapratiśrayaḥ ||

ビーシュマは言った。「規範に背くと見なされる結びつきから、社会的に卑下された三つの集団が生ずると説かれる。彼らは身分が減じ、村境を越えた外縁に住み、卑しい生業に結びつく者として描かれる—これは社会秩序と、定められた規範を犯すことに帰せられる結果を論ずる本文の枠内で語られている。」

आयोगवीषुamong/with āyogavī women
आयोगवीषु:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootआयोगवी (स्त्री)
FormFeminine, Locative, Plural
जायन्तेare born
जायन्ते:
TypeVerb
Rootजन् (जायते)
FormPresent, Third, Plural, Ātmanepada
हीनवर्णाःof inferior caste/color
हीनवर्णाः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootहीनवर्ण (विशेषण)
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural
तुbut/indeed
तु:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतु
तेthey
ते:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural
त्रयःthree
त्रयः:
Karta
TypeNumeral
Rootत्रि
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural
क्षुद्रःthe Kṣudra (one of the three)
क्षुद्रः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootक्षुद्र (विशेषण/संज्ञा)
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
वैदेहकःthe Vaidehaka (one of the three)
वैदेहकः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootवैदेहक (संज्ञा)
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
अन्ध्रःthe Andhra (one of the three)
अन्ध्रः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअन्ध्र (संज्ञा)
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
बहिग्रामप्रतिश्रयःhaving shelter outside the village
बहिग्रामप्रतिश्रयः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootबहिग्रामप्रतिश्रय (विशेषण)
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular

भीष्म उवाच

B
Bhishma
V
Vaidehaka
A
Andhra
B
bahigrāma (outside the village)

Educational Q&A

Within the Anuśāsana Parva’s didactic framework, the verse presents a normative claim that departures from prescribed social-marital rules are believed to produce marginalized groups who live outside the village—used to reinforce adherence to the text’s idealized social order.

Bhishma, instructing on dharma and social regulations, enumerates groups said to arise from certain unions and characterizes their social location as outside the village boundary, continuing a broader discussion on conduct and societal classifications.