Shloka 68

Devanagari script

शान्तिपर्वण्यपि तथा हविष्यं भोजयेद्‌ द्विजान्‌

Transliteration

śāntiparvaṇy api tathā haviṣyaṁ bhojayed dvijān

Translation

شانتی پَرو میں بھی اسی طرح دْوِجوں کو ہَوِشْیَ (یَجْن کے لیے پاکیزہ نذرانۂ خوراک) کھلایا جائے۔

Word by Word

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• तथा: thus/likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• हविष्यम्: havis; sacrificial food/oblation
• हविष्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: हविष्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• भोजयेत्: should feed/should cause to eat
• Type: Verb
• Root: भुज्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), Parasmaipada (causative), Third, Singular

• द्विजान्: Brahmins (twice-born)
• द्विजान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्विज
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Śānti-parvan
• dvija (twice-born, especially Brahmins)
• haviṣya (sacred oblation/ritual food)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That dharmic conduct includes sustaining the learned and initiated through ritually pure hospitality—feeding dvijas with haviṣya—especially in contexts of pacification, expiation, and the re-establishment of peace.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana continues a prescriptive description of proper religious conduct, stating that, similarly, in the Śānti-parvan-related setting one should offer sanctified food (haviṣya) to dvijas as part of righteous observance.