Shloka 1
Daṇḍa, Ahiṃsā, and Proportional Kingship: The Dyumatsena–Satyavān Dialogue (दण्ड-अहिंसा-विवेकः)
््-्अ्ः बछ। जि षष्ट्यथिकद्विशततमो< ध्याय: युधिष्ठटिरका धर्मकी प्रामाणिकतापर संदेह उपस्थित करना युधिछिर उवाच सूक्ष्मं साधु समादिष्टे भवता धर्मलक्षणम् | प्रतिभा त्वस्ति मे काचित् तां ब्रूयामनुमानत:ः
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca—Sūkṣmaṃ sādhu samādiṣṭe bhavatā dharmalakṣaṇam | Pratibhā tv asti me kācit tāṃ brūyām anumānataḥ ||
由提湿提罗说道：“祖父啊，你已阐明法（Dharma）那微妙而卓绝的标志。然而我心中又生起一分领悟；因此我将仅凭推理而陈述之。”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even after receiving authoritative instruction on dharma, one may test and articulate understanding through personal insight (pratibhā) and rational inference (anumāna), showing that ethical knowledge involves both tradition and reflective reasoning.
In the Śānti Parva dialogue, Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Bhīṣma after hearing a subtle definition of dharma and asks permission, as it were, to present his own inferred view—signaling a shift from listening to critical engagement.