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Mahabharata 5.40.21

प्रज्ञावृद्धं धर्मवृद्धं स्वबन्धुं; विद्यावृद्धं वयसा चापि वृद्धम्कार्याकार्ये पूजयित्वा प्रसाद्य; यः संपृच्छेन्न स मुह्येत्कदाचित्

prajñāvṛddhaṃ dharmavṛddhaṃ svabandhuṃ; vidyāvṛddhaṃ vayasā cāpi vṛddhamkāryākārye pūjayitvā prasādya; yaḥ saṃpṛcchenna sa muhyetkadācit

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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.