Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 77 Shloka 5 - Mahabharata | Punjabi | Vedapath

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Shloka 5

Devanagari script

ये दोषा यादृशाश्ैव द्विजयज्ञोपघातके । विक्रये चापहारे च ते दोषा वै स्मृता: प्रभो

Transliteration

ye doṣā yādṛśāś caiva dvija-yajñopaghātake | vikraye cāpahāre ca te doṣā vai smṛtāḥ prabho ||

Translation

ਹੇ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ! ਜਿਵੇਂ ਅਤੇ ਜਿੰਨੇ ਦੋਸ਼ ਬ੍ਰਾਹਮਣ ਦੇ ਯਜ੍ਞ ਨੂੰ ਨਸ਼ਟ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਨੂੰ ਲੱਗਦੇ ਹਨ, ਓਹੀ ਦੋਸ਼ ਦੂਜੇ ਦੀ ਗਾਂ ਚੁਰਾਉਣ ਅਤੇ ਵੇਚਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੀ ਸਿਮ੍ਰਿਤੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਦੱਸੇ ਹਨ।

Word by Word

येwhich, those (who/that)

दोषाःfaults, sins

यादृशाःof what kind, such as

एवindeed, just

द्विजयज्ञोपघातकेin/with regard to one who destroys a Brahmin's sacrifice

विक्रयेin selling

चand

अपहारेin theft, in taking away

चand

तेthose

दोषाःfaults, sins

वैindeed, surely

स्मृताःare declared/remembered (as)

प्रभोO lord

Speaker

पितामह उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma (Pitamah)

Brahmana (dvija)

yajna (sacrifice)

cow (implied by context: ‘others’ cow’)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse equates the moral gravity of harming a Brāhmaṇa’s sacrificial rite with the wrongdoing involved in stealing or selling another person’s cow, stressing that certain acts undermine dharma and social-religious order to a comparable degree.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Anuśāsana Parva’s dharma-instruction setting, Bhīṣma (Pitāmaha) is teaching about ethical transgressions and their consequences, classifying the ‘doṣa’ (fault/sin) attached to specific acts—here, damage to sacrifice and the theft/sale of another’s cow.