Shloka 26
गोप्रदानगुणाः तथा कपिलागोविधानम्
Merits of Cow-Gift and the Origin-Account of Kapilā Cows
एतच्चैनं यो<नुतिछेत युक्तः सत्ये रतो गुरुशुश्रूषया च । दक्ष: क्षान्तो देवतार्थी प्रशान्तः शुचिर्बुद्धो धर्मशीलोडनहंवाक्ू
etac cainaṃ yo ’nutisṭhet yuktaḥ satye rato guruśuśrūṣayā ca | dakṣaḥ kṣānto devatārthī praśāntaḥ śucir buddho dharmaśīlo ’nahaṃvāk ||
ビーシュマは言った。「自らを律し、これにかなって生きる者——真実を喜び、師への奉仕に励み、能く事をなし、忍耐し、神々の礼拝を志し、内に静まり、清らかで、賢く、ダルマに確立し、自己を誇示する言葉を離れた者——その人こそ、ここに説かれる行いを真に体現する。」
पितामह उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse defines the traits of a person who truly practices the prescribed dharmic discipline: commitment to truth, service to the teacher, competence joined with patience, devotion to the divine, inner tranquility, purity, wisdom, steady righteous conduct, and humility expressed as freedom from ego-driven speech.
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and right conduct. Here he summarizes the kind of disciplined practitioner who follows the teaching properly, listing the ethical and spiritual qualities that mark such a person.