Shloka 27
Dāyavibhāga (Inheritance Apportionment) and Household Precedence — Dialogue of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīṣma
देवदत्तां पतिर्भा्या वेत्ति धर्मस्य शासनात् । स दैवीं मानुषी वाचमनृतां पर्युदस्यति
devadattāṁ patir bhāryāṁ vetti dharmasya śāsanāt | sa daivīṁ mānuṣīṁ vācam anṛtāṁ paryudasyati ||
भीष्म उवाच—धर्मशासनानुसारं यां स्त्रीं देवदत्तामिव न्यायतो लब्धां पतिर्भार्यां वेत्ति। स तां दैवेन प्रदत्तामिति मन्यमानः प्रतिगृह्णाति, मनुष्याणां तु मिथ्यावादं—तद्विवाहोऽयोग्य इति वाचं—पर्युदस्यति।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
A marriage that is righteous and sanctioned by dharma should be accepted as divinely allotted; one should not be swayed by false, worldly criticism that tries to invalidate it.
Bhishma is instructing on household and marital dharma, explaining that a husband should acknowledge a lawfully obtained wife as fate-given and disregard untruthful human talk that labels the union improper.