Mahabharata 6.4.19 — Bhishma Parva, Adhyaya 4, Shloka 19
Bhīṣma Parva, Adhyāya 4 — Dhṛtarāṣṭra–Vyāsa Saṃvāda on Kāla and Jayalakṣaṇa
Signs of Victory
एते ग्राम्या: समाख्याता: पशव: सप्त साधुभि: । एते वै पशवो राजन _ग्राम्यारण्याश्षतुर्दश
ete grāmyāḥ samākhyātāḥ paśavaḥ sapta sādhubhiḥ | ete vai paśavo rājan grāmyāraṇyāś caturdaśa ||
Disse Sañjaya: “Estes sete animais são descritos pelos sábios como ‘domésticos’ (vivendo entre os povoados). Ó rei, tomados em conjunto—os domésticos e os selvagens—diz-se, assim, que são catorze ao todo.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a traditional, ‘wise’ classification of animals into domestic (grāmya) and wild/forest-dwelling (āraṇya), emphasizing orderly categorization as part of learned discourse addressed to a king.
Sañjaya continues a descriptive explanation to the king, stating that sages count seven animals as domestic and, when combined with wild ones, speak of a total of fourteen—framing the information as authoritative traditional knowledge.
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