Shloka 89
Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)
अहिंसाधर्मसंयुक्ता: प्रचरेयु: सुरोत्तमा: । स वो देश: सेवितव्यो मा वो<धर्म: पदा स्पृशेत्
ahiṃsā-dharma-saṃyuktāḥ pracareyuḥ surottamāḥ | sa vo deśaḥ sevitavyo mā vo dharmaḥ padā spṛśet |
ವೈಶಂಪಾಯನನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಓ ದೇವೋತ್ತಮರೇ, ಅಹಿಂಸಾಧರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಯುಕ್ತರಾಗಿ ಸಂಚರಿಸಿರಿ. ಆ ದೇಶವನ್ನೇ ಸೇವಿಸಿ ವಾಸಿಸಿರಿ; ಆಗ ಅಧರ್ಮವು ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಪಾದಸ್ಪರ್ಶದಿಂದಲೂ ತಾಕಲಾರದು—ಅಂದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಧರ್ಮವು ಪಾದಾಘಾತದಿಂದ ಮಲಿನವಾಗದು.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse urges conduct grounded in ahiṃsā (non-violence) and warns against any action that would degrade or violate dharma—expressed through the vivid idiom of dharma being ‘touched by the foot,’ i.e., trampled or defiled.
Vaiśampāyana, as narrator, conveys an instruction addressed to ‘the best of the gods,’ advising them to dwell or operate in a suitable region while maintaining non-violent, dharmic conduct, so their righteousness remains untainted.