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Mahabharata 12.194.7

ज्ञानं यतः प्रार्थयते नरो वै; ततस्तदर्था भवति प्रवृत्तिःन चाप्यहं वेद परं पुराणं; मिथ्याप्रवृत्तिं च कथं नु कुर्याम्

jñānaṃ yataḥ prārthayate naro vai; tatastadarthā bhavati pravṛttiḥna cāpyahaṃ veda paraṃ purāṇaṃ; mithyāpravṛttiṃ ca kathaṃ nu kuryām

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Critical Edition, parva.adhyaya.shloka.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.

Mahabharata 12.194.7 · Vidya