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Mahabharata 12.213.2

भीष्म उवाच · bhīṣma uvāca

दममेव प्रशंसन्ति वृद्धाः श्रुतिसमाधयःसर्वेषामेव वर्णानां ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषतः

damameva praśaṃsanti vṛddhāḥ śrutisamādhayaḥsarveṣāmeva varṇānāṃ brāhmaṇasya viśeṣataḥ

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.