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Mahabharata 12.68.18

पतेद्बहुविधं शस्त्रं बहुधा धर्मचारिषुअधर्मः प्रगृहीतः स्याद्यदि राजा न पालयेत्

patedbahuvidhaṃ śastraṃ bahudhā dharmacāriṣuadharmaḥ pragṛhītaḥ syādyadi rājā na pālayet

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.