Shloka 92
Dharma-vyādha’s Analysis of Moral Decline and the Mahābhūta–Guṇa Schema (धर्मव्याधोपदेशः)
व्रजे वाप्यथवारण्ये यत्र सन्ति बहुश्रुता: । तत् तन्नगरमित्याहु: पार्थ तीर्थ च तद् भवेत्,कुन्तीनन्दन! व्रज (गौओंके रहनेका स्थान) हो या वन, जहाँ बहुश्रुत विद्वान् रहते हों, उसे “नगर” कहा गया है, वह तीर्थ भी माना गया है
vraje vāpy athavāraṇye yatra santi bahuśrutāḥ | tat tan nagaram ity āhuḥ pārtha tīrtha ca tad bhavet | kuntīnandana!
ユディシュティラは言った。「パールタよ、クンティの子よ。牧人の集落であれ森であれ、博聞にして聖なる伝承に通じた者たちが住むところは『都』と呼ばれる。そしてその地はまたティールタ（功徳へ渡る渡し場）ともなる。」
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
A place is made ‘civilized’ and spiritually potent not by buildings or location but by the presence of learned, dharma-grounded people; their company turns even a forest or pastoral settlement into a ‘city’ and a ‘tīrtha’—a crossing-place that uplifts others.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Arjuna (Pārtha, Kuntīnandana) and reframes the idea of sacred and urban space: wherever true learning and wise persons reside, that place deserves the status of a city and functions like a pilgrimage-site.