Shloka 1
Daśa-Karmapatha: Restraints of Body, Speech, and Mind (दश कर्मपथ)
(दाक्षिणात्य अधिक पाठके २६ श्लोक मिलाकर कुल ८० श्लोक हैं) ऑपनआक्रात बा अर: 2 त्रयोदशो< ध्याय: शरीर, वाणी और मनसे होनेवाले पापोंके परित्यागका उपदेश युधिछिर उवाच कि कर्तव्यं मनुष्येण लोकयात्राहितार्थिना । कथं वै लोकयात्रां तु किंशीलश्ष समाचरेत्,युधिष्ठिरे पूछा--पितामह! लोकयात्राका भली-भाँति निर्वाह करनेकी इच्छा रखनेवाले मनुष्यको क्या करना चाहिये? कैसा स्वभाव बनाकर किस प्रकार लोकमें जीवन बिताना चाहिये?
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: kiṃ kartavyaṃ manuṣyeṇa lokayātrāhitārthinā? kathaṃ vai lokayātrāṃ tu kiṃśīlaḥ samācaret?
Yudhiṣṭhira disse: “Ó venerável Avô, que deve fazer o homem que busca o bem da vida no mundo e a sua devida continuidade? Como, de fato, deve conduzir-se no mundo — que caráter deve cultivar e por que modo de conduta deve viver?”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames an ethical inquiry: a person who wants to sustain worldly life rightly should ask what duties to perform and what character to cultivate—placing conduct (ācāra) and disposition (śīla) at the center of dharma.
Yudhiṣṭhira, seeking guidance after the war, addresses Bhīṣma as ‘Grandsire’ and asks for instruction on proper worldly conduct—how to live so that one’s life and society are maintained in a beneficial way.