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Shloka 10

नारद–असित (देवल) संवादः — भूतप्रभवाप्यय, इन्द्रिय-गुण-विवेक, क्षेत्रज्ञ-तत्त्व

Devanagari script

तपस्विनो धृतिमन्तः श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुष: । सर्वमार्ष हि मन्यन्ते व्याहृतं विदितात्मन:

Transliteration

tapasvino dhṛtimantaḥ śrutivijñānacakṣuṣaḥ | sarvam ārṣaṃ hi manyante vyāhṛtaṃ viditātmanaḥ ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。苦行に堪え、忍耐を備え、シュルティと真の識別を眼とする仙たちは、あらゆる「アルシャ」（ārṣa、仙人に由来する聖なる言葉）を、自己を悟った者の宣言として受けとめる。それは成就された知に根ざす啓示であり、人為の作ではない。

Word by Word

तपस्विनःascetics

धृतिमन्तःsteadfast, endowed with fortitude

श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुषःhaving the eye of scriptural learning and discriminative knowledge

सर्वम्everything

ऋषयःsages

हिindeed, for

मन्यन्तेthey think/consider

व्याहृतम्uttered, spoken forth

विदितात्मनःof the self-realized one (whose self is known)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

tapasvin (ascetics)

Ṛ

ṛṣi (seers)

śruti (Vedic revelation)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Those grounded in austerity, fortitude, and Vedic-discernment treat ṛṣi-origin sacred utterance as authoritative because it is understood as the proclamation of Self-realized insight, not merely a human composition.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and right knowledge, Bhīṣma explains how wise ascetics evaluate the status of sacred speech: they accept ‘ārṣa’ revelation as the utterance of realized seers, thereby establishing a basis for scriptural authority.