Shloka 27
दुर्ग-निवेश-राजधर्मः | Fortified Capital and the King’s Residential Polity
Rājadharma
सर्वार्थत्यागिनं राजा कुले जात॑ बहुश्रुतम् । पूजयेत् तादृशं दृष्टया शयनासनभोजनै:
sarvārthatyāginaṃ rājā kule jātaṃ bahuśrutam | pūjayet tādṛśaṃ dṛṣṭvā śayanāsanabhojanaiḥ ||
毗湿摩说道：国王若遇见出身良族、通达圣典、并已舍弃一切世间所求之人，当识其德而加以礼敬，以床榻、座席与饮食供养之。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
A king should actively honor and support a learned renunciant—someone who has given up worldly aims—by offering respectful hospitality (lodging, a seat of honor, and food). This frames royal duty as service to dharma through reverence for spiritual discipline and knowledge.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on rājadharma, Bhīṣma is advising the king (Yudhiṣṭhira in context) on proper conduct toward virtuous people. He specifies concrete acts of honor—bed, seat, and food—when such a renunciant scholar is encountered.