Shloka 27
Śaraṇāgata-Atithi-Dharma in the Kapota Narrative (कपोत-आख्यानम्—शरणागतधर्मः)
त्यक्त्वा दारांश्व पुत्रांश्व कस्मिंश्व॒ जनसंसदि । भक्ष्याभक्ष्यसमो भूत्वा निरग्निरनिकेतन:
tyaktvā dārān ca putrān ca kasmiṁś ca jana-saṁsadi | bhakṣyābhakṣya-samo bhūtvā niragnir aniketanāḥ ||
毗湿摩说道：“他舍弃妻子与儿子，把他们留在某处众人集会之所；随后他继续漂泊，弃绝家中圣火与一切定居之处，对可食与不可食之物皆以平等之心相待。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches renunciant discipline: relinquishing household identity (family ties, sacred fires, fixed residence) and cultivating equanimity even toward socially coded distinctions like permissible vs. impermissible food—an ethical training in non-attachment and sameness of vision.
Bhīṣma describes an ascetic who leaves his family behind in a public setting and adopts a wandering life, no longer maintaining domestic rituals (agnihotra) or a home, and living with an even-minded attitude toward food categories.