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Mahabharata 3.49.13

क्षात्रं धर्मं महाराज समवेक्षितुमर्हसिन हि धर्मो महाराज क्षत्रियस्य वनाश्रयःराज्यमेव परं धर्मं क्षत्रियस्य विदुर्बुधाः

kṣātraṃ dharmaṃ mahārāja samavekṣitumarhasina hi dharmo mahārāja kṣatriyasya vanāśrayaḥrājyameva paraṃ dharmaṃ kṣatriyasya vidurbudhāḥ

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 3.49.13 · SatsangVidya