Shloka 9

Nakṣatra-yoga-anusāreṇa Dāna-vidhiḥ

Gifts prescribed according to lunar mansions and yogas

Devanagari script

पूज्या हि ज्ञानविज्ञानतपोयोगसमन्विता: । तेभ्य पूजां प्रयुज्जीथा ब्राह्मुणेभ्य: परंतप

Transliteration

pūjyā hi jñāna-vijñāna-tapo-yoga-samanvitāḥ | tebhyaḥ pūjāṃ prayuñjīthā brāhmaṇebhyaḥ parantapa ||

Translation

Bhīṣma nói: “Những Bà-la-môn được trang bị học vấn thiêng liêng và trí chứng ngộ, cùng khổ hạnh và yoga có kỷ luật, thật sự xứng đáng được tôn kính. Vì vậy, hỡi kẻ thiêu đốt quân thù, ngươi hãy dâng lễ bái và kính trọng họ một cách cung cẩn.”

Word by Word

• पूज्याः: worthy of worship
• पूज्याः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूज्य (√पूज् + य)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• ज्ञान-विज्ञान-तपो-योग-समन्विताः: endowed with knowledge, discernment, austerity, and yoga
• ज्ञान-विज्ञान-तपो-योग-समन्विताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: समन्वित (सम् + √नी + क्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तेभ्यः: to them
• तेभ्यः: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Plural

• पूजाम्: worship/honour
• पूजाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूजा
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• प्रयुज्जीथाः: you should offer/perform
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + √युज्
• Form: Vidhi-linga (optative), Present-system, Second, Singular, Parasmaipada

• ब्राह्मणेभ्यः: to the Brahmins
• ब्राह्मणेभ्यः: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्राह्मण
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Plural

• परंतप: O scorcher of foes (epithet)
• Type: Noun
• Root: परंतप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Brāhmaṇas
• Parantapa (epithet of the addressee, likely Yudhiṣṭhira)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma teaches that true reverence is due to Brāhmaṇas who unite learning (jñāna) with realized discernment (vijñāna), and whose lives are disciplined by austerity (tapas) and spiritual practice (yoga). Honor is not merely for birth or status, but for cultivated virtue and inner attainment.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs the king on dharma and right conduct. Here he specifically advises the addressee—addressed as ‘Parantapa’—to offer worshipful respect and service to spiritually accomplished Brāhmaṇas, framing it as a kingly and ethical obligation.