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Mahabharata 5.6.1

द्रुपद उवाच · drupada uvāca

भूतानां प्राणिनः श्रेष्ठाः प्राणिनां बुद्धिजीविनःबुद्धिमत्सु नराः श्रेष्ठा नराणां तु द्विजातयः

bhūtānāṃ prāṇinaḥ śreṣṭhāḥ prāṇināṃ buddhijīvinaḥbuddhimatsu narāḥ śreṣṭhā narāṇāṃ tu dvijātayaḥ

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.