Shloka 50
पापात्म-धर्मात्म-लक्षणम् तथा निर्वेदेन मोक्षमार्गः | Marks of the Sinful and the Righteous; Dispassion (Nirveda) as a Path to Liberation
एवं न स्त्री न चैवाहं नाध्वगस्त्रिदशे श्वर: । अपराध्यति धर्मस्य प्रमादस्त्वपराध्यति
evaṁ na strī na caivāhaṁ nādhvagas tridāśeśvaraḥ | aparādhyati dharmasya pramādas tv aparādhyati ||
毗湿摩说道：“因此，女子无罪，我亦无罪；那位以婆罗门之形前来的行旅——即诸天之主因陀罗——也无罪。真正的罪人是对达摩的疏忽：正是我一时失念——竟以误杀女子的形态显现——成了此过失的根本。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse locates moral blame not in persons used as instruments or in external circumstances, but in pramāda—carelessness regarding dharma. Ethical failure arises from negligence, and one must own the lapse rather than scapegoat others.
Bhishma reflects on a wrongdoing connected with the killing of a woman. He declares that neither the woman, nor he as a person, nor Indra (who appeared as a traveller in brahmin guise) is intrinsically to blame; rather, the decisive cause of the offence was his own negligent lapse in adhering to dharma.