Shloka 1223
धर्मस्य बहुद्वारत्वम् — Nārada’s Audience with Indra (Śānti-parva 340)
श्रावयामास राजेन्द्र पितृणां मुनिसत्तम: । राजेन्द्र! मुनिश्रेष्ठ ब्राह्मण असितने देवताओंके मुखसे उस माहात्म्यको सुनकर पितरोंको सुनाया
śrāvayāmāsa rājendra pitṝṇāṃ munisattamaḥ |
भीष्म उवाच—राजेन्द्र, मुनिसत्तमः पितॄन् श्रावयामास। देवानां मुखेभ्यः तद् माहात्म्यं श्रुत्वा, असितो नाम ब्राह्मणः पितॄन् तद् आख्यानं न्यवेदयत्।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred knowledge is preserved and made efficacious through authorized hearing (śravaṇa) and faithful transmission: what is heard from divine or reliable sources should be recited onward to rightful recipients (here, the Pitṛs), sustaining dharma across generations.
Bhīṣma describes a foremost sage who, after hearing a sacred account of greatness from the gods, recites it so that the Pitṛs may hear it—linking divine revelation to ancestral tradition and ritual memory.