Shloka 3
भीष्म-द्रोणादिभिः पाण्डवसेनाक्षयकाल-निर्णयः | Time-estimates for the depletion of the Pāṇḍava forces
Bhīṣma–Droṇa council
सर्वे ब्रह्म॒विद: शूरा: सर्वे सुचरितव्रता: । सर्वे वर्मभृतश्वैव सर्वे चाहवलक्षणा:,वे सभी वेदवेत्ता, शूरवीर तथा उत्तम विधिसे व्रतका पालन करनेवाले थे। सभी कवचधारी तथा युद्धके चिह्नोंसे सुशोभित थे
sarve brahmavidaḥ śūrāḥ sarve sucaritavratāḥ | sarve varmabhṛtaś caiva sarve cāhavalakṣaṇāḥ ||
ਉਹ ਸਭ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ-ਵਿਦਿਆ ਦੇ ਜਾਣਕਾਰ, ਸਭ ਸੂਰਮੇ ਅਤੇ ਸਭ ਸੁਚਰਿਤ੍ਰ ਵ੍ਰਤ-ਪਾਲਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਦ੍ਰਿੜ੍ਹ ਸਨ। ਸਭ ਬਕਤਰਧਾਰੀ ਸਨ ਅਤੇ ਸਭ ਵਿੱਚ ਯੁੱਧ ਦੇ ਲੱਛਣ—ਪੱਕੇ ਯੋਧੇ ਦੀ ਠਾਠ—ਸਪਸ਼ਟ ਸੀ।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents an ideal of integrated excellence: spiritual learning (brahmavidyā), ethical discipline (well-kept vows), and martial readiness (armor and battle-bearing). It implies that true leadership in a dharmic society unites knowledge, self-restraint, and courage rather than treating them as separate virtues.
The narrator describes a group of men (warriors/attendants in the Udyoga Parva context) as uniformly distinguished—learned, brave, observant of vows, armored, and visibly prepared for combat—setting the tone of impending conflict while emphasizing their cultivated character.