Shloka 33
Ārjava, Satya, and the Virocana–Sudhanvan Exemplum
Udyoga-parva 35
यश्न नो ब्राह्मणान् हन्याद् यश्न नो ब्राह्मणान् द्विषेत् । न नः स समितिं गच्छेद् यश्व नो निर्वपेत् पितृनू
yaś ca no brāhmaṇān hanyād yaś ca no brāhmaṇān dviṣet | na naḥ sa samitiṁ gacched yaś ca no nirvapet pitṝn ||
आमच्यात जो ब्राह्मणांचा वध करील, ब्राह्मणांशी द्वेष धरेल, आणि पितरांसाठी पिंडदान-तर्पण करणार नाही— त्याने आमच्या सभेत येऊ नये.
विदुर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Public deliberation and political participation require moral fitness: one who harms or hates Brahmins, or neglects obligatory ancestral offerings, is unfit to join the community’s council.
Vidura is laying down a normative rule for the Kuru assembly, defining who should be excluded from the council based on grave violations of dharma—violence toward Brahmins, hostility toward them, and neglect of pitṛ-obligations.