Shloka 1
कपोत-लुब्धकसंवादः — Hunter’s Remorse and Renunciatory Resolve
अपन का छा ] अतकडऑकाडज द्विचत्वारिशर्दाधिकशततमो< ध्याय: आपत्कालमें राजाके धर्मका निश्चय तथा उत्तम ब्राह्मणोंके सेवनका आदेश युधिछिर उवाच यदि घोर समुद्िष्टमश्रद्धेयमिवानृतम् । अस्ति स्विद् दस्युमर्यादा यामहं परिवर्जये
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | yadi ghoraṃ samudiṣṭam aśraddheyam ivānṛtam | asti svid dasyu-maryādā yām ahaṃ parivarjaye ||
Wika ni Yudhiṣṭhira: “Kung kahit sa mga mararangal ay itinakda bilang tungkulin sa panahon ng kagipitan ang isang gawang kasindak-sindak—na wari’y di kapanipaniwala, halos tulad ng kasinungalingan—ano pang hangganan ng kasamaan ang matitira para sa mga magnanakaw at tulisan? Sabihin mo sa akin: alin ang hangganang dapat kong talikdan magpakailanman?”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when emergency-dharma (āpaddharma) permits harsh actions, one must still ask whether any inviolable moral boundary remains; Yudhiṣṭhira insists that dharma cannot become indistinguishable from criminality.
In the Śānti Parva’s discussion of conduct in calamity, Yudhiṣṭhira challenges the idea that extremely severe acts can be ‘duty’ in crisis, asking what line separates righteous necessity from the behavior of bandits.