Shloka 13
Dāyavibhāga (Inheritance Apportionment) and Household Precedence — Dialogue of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīṣma
अपत्यजन्म शूद्रायां न प्रशंसन्ति साधव: । शूद्रायां जनयन् वि्र: प्रायश्चित्ती विधीयते
apatyajanma śūdrāyāṁ na praśaṁsanti sādhavaḥ | śūdrāyāṁ janayan vipraḥ prāyaścittī vidhīyate ||
Wika ni Bhishma: “Hindi pinupuri ng mga matuwid ang pag-aanak sa pamamagitan ng babaeng Shudra. Kung ang isang Brahmin ay magkaanak sa isang babaeng Shudra, itinatalaga para sa kanya ang isang gawaing pagtubos o pag-ako ng pagsisisi (prāyaścitta).”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a normative rule of conduct: procreation by a brāhmaṇa with a Śūdra woman is treated as blameworthy in the dharma discourse, and therefore requires prāyaścitta (ritual-moral expiation).
In the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and proper conduct. Here he states a social-ethical injunction concerning varṇa boundaries and the consequent need for expiation when they are transgressed.