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Shloka 4

उपवासविधि-प्रश्नः

Inquiry into the Discipline of Fasting

Devanagari script

अन्ध: स्यादन्धवेलायां जड: स्यादपि वा बुध: । परिहारेण तद्‌ ब्रूयाद्‌ यस्तेषां स्याद्‌ व्यतिक्रम:

Transliteration

andhaḥ syād andha-velāyāṃ jaḍaḥ syād api vā budhaḥ | parihāreṇa tad brūyād yas teṣāṃ syād vyatikramaḥ ||

Translation

Bhishma nói: “Đúng lúc, người anh cả phải biết như thể mù, như thể ngây, và cũng như thể minh triết. Khi các em phạm lỗi, thấy mà như không thấy; biết mà như không biết; rồi dùng lời hòa nhã khuyên răn để dứt đi khuynh hướng tái phạm.”

Word by Word

अन्धःblind (one)

स्यात्should be / may become

अन्ध-वेलायाम्at a time for being blind (i.e., when one should overlook)

जडःdull / inert (as if ignorant)

स्यात्should be / may become

अपिeven / also

वाor

बुधःa wise man

परिहारेणby (means of) forbearance/avoidance (tactful handling)

तत्that (course/thing)

ब्रूयात्should say / should speak

यःwho

तेषाम्of them

स्यात्should be / may be

व्यतिक्रमःtransgression / offence

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

An elder should preserve harmony by strategic forbearance: sometimes ‘not seeing’ a minor fault, sometimes acting unaware, and sometimes using wise, conciliatory speech—so that the younger person’s tendency to repeat the offence is corrected without humiliation or escalation.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anushasana Parva, Bhishma is instructing Yudhishthira on dharma and right conduct. Here he gives practical counsel on household and kinship ethics—how an elder brother should respond when younger brothers err.