Shloka 5
अरण्यवृत्ति-वैराग्योपदेशः | Forest Discipline and the Program of Non-Attachment
जुद्वानोडग्निं यथाकालमुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन् | कृश: परिमिताहारश्चर्मचीरजटाधर:,दोनों समय स्नान करके यथासमय अग्निहोत्र करूँगा और परिमित आहार करके शरीरको दुर्बल कर दूँगा। मृगचर्म तथा वल्कल वस्त्र धारण करके सिरपर जटा रखूँगा
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | juhvāno 'gnim yathākālam ubhau kālāv upaspṛśan | kṛśaḥ parimitāhāraś carmacīrajāṭādharaḥ ||
युधिष्ठिर म्हणाला— दोन्ही संध्याकाळी स्नान करून आणि यथाकाळ अग्निहोत्र करून, परिमित आहाराने देह कृश करीन. मृगचर्म व वल्कल धारण करीन आणि मस्तकी जटा ठेवीन.
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes disciplined dharma through regulated daily rites (purification and agnihotra) and restraint (measured diet, ascetic attire), presenting self-control and ritual order as ethical means to inner purification.
Yudhiṣṭhira declares his intention to adopt an ascetic regimen: bathing at the two daily ritual times, maintaining the fire-offering at the proper hours, eating sparingly to become lean, and wearing the traditional marks of a renunciant (deer-skin, bark garments, and matted hair).