Shloka 41
दानफलप्रकरणम् — उपानहदानं, तिलदानं, भूमिदानं, गोदानं, अन्नदानं च
Gifts and Their Stated Results: Footwear, Sesame, Land, Cows, and Food
अथ येषामधर्मज्ञो राजा भवति नास्तिक: । न ते सुखं प्रबुध्यन्ति न सुखं प्रस्वपन्ति च
atha yeṣām adharmajño rājā bhavati nāstikaḥ | na te sukhaṃ prabudhyante na sukhaṃ prasvapanti ca ||
ഭീഷ്മൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ധർമ്മം അറിയാത്തതും നാസ്തികനുമായ രാജാവുള്ളിടത്ത് പ്രജകൾക്ക് സുഖമില്ല; ഉണർന്നിരിക്കുമ്പോഴും സന്തോഷമില്ല, ഉറക്കത്തിലും ശാന്തിയില്ല.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
A ruler’s dharma-knowledge and moral orientation directly determine public well-being: when the king is ignorant of dharma and rejects right principles, society loses peace both in daily life and in rest.
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma is instructing Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and governance. Here he states a consequence of bad rulership: under an adharma-ignorant, nāstika king, the subjects cannot experience happiness either while awake or asleep.