Shloka 88
Śaraṇāgata-Atithi-Dharma in the Kapota Narrative (कपोत-आख्यानम्—शरणागतधर्मः)
विश्वामित्र उवाच उपादाने खादने चास्ति दोष: कार्यात्यये नित्यमत्रापवाद: । यस्मिन् हिंसा नानृतं वाच्यलेशो- $भक्ष्यक्रिया यत्र न तदगरीय:
Viśvāmitra uvāca: upādāne khādane cāsti doṣaḥ; kāryātyaye nityam atrāpavādaḥ. yasmin hiṃsā nānṛtaṃ vācyaleśo bhakṣyakriyā yatra na tad garīyaḥ.
毗湿瓦密多罗说道：“接受那样的施与、食用禁食之物，确实有过失。然而当迫切的生存需要临到——当性命攸关之时——经典总会开示例外之门。在既无杀害、亦无虚妄之处，所受的责难不过是一丝轻微的讥诮。因此，那些即便在危及生命的情形下仍坚持绝对禁止食用不宜之物的戒令，并不更为重大，也不更具权威。”
विश्वामित्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
General prohibitions (like not accepting certain gifts or not eating forbidden food) can be overridden by apavāda—scriptural exceptions—when a grave necessity threatens life. If the act avoids greater sins such as violence and falsehood, the remaining fault is minimal, and rigid prohibitions in such emergencies are not the higher authority.
Viśvāmitra addresses a Cāṇḍāla while justifying an ethically difficult act—accepting and eating what is normally improper—by appealing to the principle of emergency-dharma (āpaddharma): in life-threatening situations, scripture allows exceptions, and the moral weight shifts toward preserving life without committing greater wrongs.