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Shloka 84

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

परिगणित गुणों और दोषोंमेंसे अमुक गुण या दोष पहले कहना चाहिये और अमुकको पीछे कहना अभीष्ट है। इस प्रकार जो पूर्वापरके क्रमका विचार होता है, उसका नाम क्रम है और जिस वाकयमें ऐसा क्रम हो, उस वाक्यको वाक्यतवेत्ता विद्वान्‌ क्रमयुक्त कहते हैं ।।

bhīṣma uvāca | dharmakāmārthamokṣeṣu pratijñāya viśeṣataḥ | idaṃ tad iti vākyānte procyate sa vinirṇayaḥ ||

毗湿摩言:在已计数列举的功德与过失之中,思量“某德某过当先说,某者当后说”——如此考察前后次第者,名为“次第”(krama);具此次第之句,通晓文句之贤者称为“具次第之语”(krama-yukta)。又于法(dharma)、利(artha)、欲(kāma)、解脱(mokṣa)诸事之中,若师先立誓特申其一为宗旨,而于说法之末结曰:“此即彼所欲之题旨”,则其所确立之定论名为“毗尼尔那耶”(vinirṇaya,最终裁定)。

धर्मin/with regard to dharma
धर्म:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootधर्म
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
कामin/with regard to desire
काम:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootकाम
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
अर्थin/with regard to wealth/aim
अर्थ:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootअर्थ
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
मोक्षेषुin/with regard to liberations (i.e., mokṣa as a topic)
मोक्षेषु:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootमोक्ष
FormMasculine, Locative, Plural
प्रतिज्ञायhaving promised/undertaken
प्रतिज्ञाय:
TypeVerb
Rootप्रतिज्ञा
Formक्त्वा (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada (usage-neutral)
विशेषत:especially; in particular
विशेषत::
TypeIndeclinable
Rootविशेषतस्
इदम्this
इदम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
तत्that
तत्:
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
इतिthus (quotative)
इति:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइति
वाक्यin the statement/sentence
वाक्य:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootवाक्य
FormNeuter, Locative, Singular
अन्तेat the end
अन्ते:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootअन्त
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
प्रोच्यतेis said/declared
प्रोच्यते:
TypeVerb
Rootप्र + वच्
FormLat (present), Atmanepada, Third, Singular, Passive
सःthat (he/it)
सः:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
विनिर्णयःfinal determination; conclusion
विनिर्णयः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootविनिर्णय
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular

भीष्य उवाच

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Bhishma

Educational Q&A

A discourse becomes a firm doctrinal conclusion (vinirṇaya) when the speaker first announces a specific thesis about one of the four aims of life—dharma, artha, kāma, or mokṣa—and then explicitly seals it at the end by identifying it as the intended point (“this is that”).

In the Shanti Parva’s instructional setting, Bhishma is teaching Yudhishthira principles of correct exposition and doctrinal clarity—how a teacher frames a topic, maintains focus, and concludes with a decisive statement that fixes the intended meaning.