Shloka 47
मृत्यु-काल-प्रबोधनम् (Instruction on Mortality, Time, and Truth) — Mahābhārata, Śānti-parva 169
पूर्वान् समर द्विज ज्ञातीन् प्रख्यातान् वेदपारगान् । तेषां वंशेडभिजातस्त्वमीदृश: कुलपांसन:
pūrvān samara dvija jñātīn prakhyātān vedapāragān | teṣāṁ vaṁśe 'bhijātas tvam īdṛśaḥ kulapāṁsanaḥ ||
بھیشم نے کہا—“اے برہمن! اپنے اسلاف کو یاد کر—وہ نامور رشتہ دار جو ویدوں کے پارنگت تھے۔ انہی کے وंश میں پیدا ہو کر تو ایسا نکلا—جو خاندان کی عزت پر دھبہ ہے۔”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
One should uphold the standards of dharma and learning associated with one’s lineage; forgetting ancestral exemplars and acting ignobly brings moral shame and social dishonor.
Bhīṣma rebukes a brāhmaṇa, urging him to remember his celebrated, Veda-master ancestors and condemning him as a ‘family-disgrace’ for behaving contrary to that inherited ideal.