Shloka 66
Varṣa-Parvata-Nivāsinām Varnanam
Description of Regions, Mountains, and Their Inhabitants
सकृदग्रहा: कुलत्थाश्न हूणा: पारसिकैः सह । तथैव रमणाश्नीनास्तथैव दशमालिका:
sa-kṛd-grahāḥ kulatthāśnā hūṇāḥ pārasikaiḥ saha | tathaiva ramaṇāśnīnās tathaiva daśamālikāḥ ||
Wika ni Sañjaya: “Mayroon din ang tinatawag na ‘mga minsanang dumadakma’, ang mga kumakain ng kulattha, ang mga Hūṇa kasama ng mga Pārasika; gayundin ang mga Ramaṇa, at gayundin ang mga Daśamālika.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse is not a direct moral injunction; its ethical-narrative force lies in showing the vast scope of the Kurukṣetra conflict and the epic world—many communities with distinct customs are drawn into the orbit of the war, reminding the listener that large-scale adharma or dharma in kingship affects far more than a single dynasty.
Sañjaya is reciting a list of peoples/communities (often frontier groups) as part of a broader descriptive catalogue in Bhīṣma Parva, situating the war within a wide geographic and social horizon.