Shloka 84
अध्यायानां सहसैस्तु त्रिभिरेव बृहस्पति: । संचिक्षेपेश्वरो बुद्धया बार्हस्पत्यं तदुच्यते,इसके बाद सामर्थ्यशाली बृहस्पतिने अपनी बुद्धिसे इसका संक्षेप किया, तबसे इसमें तीन हजार अध्याय रह गये। यही “बार्हस्पत्य” नामक नीतिशास्त्र कहलाता है
adhyāyānāṁ sahasais tu tribhir eva bṛhaspatiḥ | saṁcikṣepēśvaro buddhyā bārhaspatyaṁ tad ucyate ||
Wika ni Bhīṣma: Ngunit pagkaraan, ang makapangyarihang si Bṛhaspati, sa lakas ng kanyang talino, ay pinasiksik iyon hanggang tatlong libong kabanata na lamang. Mula noon, ang pinaikling kasulatang ito tungkol sa pamamahala at wastong asal ay nakilala bilang “Bārhaspatya” (aral ni Bṛhaspati).
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the preservation of ethical and political wisdom through intelligent condensation: authoritative teachings can be abridged without losing their essential guidance, and such a redaction becomes a recognized tradition (here, the Bārhaspatya).
In Bhishma’s instruction during the Shanti Parva, he recounts how Brihaspati reduced a much larger body of material into a shorter work of three thousand chapters, which thereafter was known as the Bārhaspatya treatise on niti (conduct and governance).