Shloka 6
कपिल–स्यूमरश्मि संवादः
Kapila and Syūmaraśmi on Renunciation, Householder Support, and Epistemic Authority
अद्रोहेणैव भूतानामल्पद्रोहेण वा पुनः । या वृत्ति: स परो धर्मस्तेन जीवामि जाजले
adroheṇaiva bhūtānām alpadroheṇa vā punaḥ | yā vṛttiḥ sa paro dharmas tena jīvāmi jājale ||
图拉达罗说道：“那种谋生之道，若能全然不伤害一切有情；若不能，也当以尽可能最少的伤害而得以维生——唯有此道才是至上的法（dharma）。噢，迦阇利，我正是凭此而养命。”
तुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse defines the highest dharma as choosing a livelihood that avoids harming living beings; if complete non-harm is impossible, one should reduce harm to the minimum. Ethical living is measured not only by intention but by the concrete impact of one’s means of subsistence.
In the Tulādhāra–Jājali discourse of the Śānti Parva, the householder Tulādhāra instructs the ascetic Jājali. Here he states his guiding principle: he sustains himself through a way of life grounded in non-injury (or the least injury possible), presenting practical ethics as superior dharma.