Shloka 10

नारद–असित (देवल) संवादः — भूतप्रभवाप्यय, इन्द्रिय-गुण-विवेक, क्षेत्रज्ञ-तत्त्व

Devanagari script

तपस्विनो धृतिमन्तः श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुष: । सर्वमार्ष हि मन्यन्ते व्याहृतं विदितात्मन:,“तपस्वी, धैर्यवान्‌, वेद एवं विज्ञानरूप दृष्टिवाले ऋषिमुनि वेदको नित्यज्ञानसम्पन्न परमेश्वरकी नि:श्वासभूत वाणी मानते हैं

Transliteration

tapasvino dhṛtimantaḥ śrutivijñānacakṣuṣaḥ | sarvam ārṣaṃ hi manyante vyāhṛtaṃ viditātmanaḥ ||

Translation

Бхишма сказал: Подвижники, исполненные стойкости, — те, чьё зрение сформировано шрути и истинным различением, — считают всё «арша» (ārṣa, происходящее от риши) изречением, провозглашённым самопознавшим; откровением, основанным на реализованном знании, а не на человеческом вымысле.

Word by Word

तपस्विनःascetics

धृतिमन्तःsteadfast, endowed with fortitude

श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुषःhaving the eye of scriptural learning and discriminative knowledge

सर्वम्everything

ऋषयःsages

हिindeed, for

मन्यन्तेthey think/consider

व्याहृतम्uttered, spoken forth

विदितात्मनःof the self-realized one (whose self is known)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

tapasvin (ascetics)

Ṛ

ṛṣi (seers)

śruti (Vedic revelation)

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?

Those grounded in austerity, fortitude, and Vedic-discernment treat ṛṣi-origin sacred utterance as authoritative because it is understood as the proclamation of Self-realized insight, not merely a human composition.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and right knowledge, Bhīṣma explains how wise ascetics evaluate the status of sacred speech: they accept ‘ārṣa’ revelation as the utterance of realized seers, thereby establishing a basis for scriptural authority.