Shloka 25
Gautama’s Flight, the Enchanted Grove, and the Arrival of Rājadharma
Nāḍījaṅgha
उपैति सत्याद् दान॑ हि तथा यज्ञा: सदक्षिणा: । त्रेताग्निहोत्रं वेदाश्न ये चानन््ये धर्मनिश्चया:
upaiti satyād dānaṁ hi tathā yajñāḥ sadakṣiṇāḥ | tretāgnihotraṁ vedāś ca ye cānanye dharmaniścayāḥ ||
ビーシュマは言った。「真実を守ることによってのみ、人は布施の功徳を、正しくダクシナーを伴う祭祀（ヤジュニャ）の功徳を、三つの聖火を保ち日々供物を捧げる功徳を、ヴェーダの学習の功徳を、さらにダルマを裁定する他の権威ある論書を学ぶ功徳をも、等しく得るのである。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Truthfulness (satya) is taught as a comprehensive virtue whose spiritual fruit equals that of major religious disciplines—charity, properly endowed sacrifices, maintaining the three fires with agnihotra, and study of the Vedas and other dharma-authoritative texts.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on dharma, Bhishma continues advising Yudhishthira by ranking and synthesizing virtues: he emphasizes that inner moral integrity—truth—can yield the same merit people seek through elaborate rituals and extensive scriptural learning.