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Ch. 1365 MBh 1365.9
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MBh • Parva 12 • Adhyāya 37: Śāntiparva Adhyāya 37

MBh 12.37.9

Canonical Ref: MBh 12.37.9
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
य एव धर्मः सोऽधर्मोऽदेशेऽकाले प्रतिष्ठितः । आदानमनृतं हिंसा धर्मो व्यावस्थिकः स्मृतः ॥
English Scholarly Translation
Virtue again, according to time and place, becomes sin. Thus misappropriation of another's property, untruth, and injury and killing, may under special circumstances, become virtue.

Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)

Grammatical Parsing
य
Lemma: यद्
POS: pron
एव
Lemma: एव
POS: ind
धर्मः
Lemma: धर्म
POS: mn
सो
Lemma: तद्
POS: pron
ऽधर्मो
Lemma: अधर्म
POS: m
ऽदेशे
Lemma: अदेश
POS: m
ऽकाले
Lemma: अकाल
POS: m
प्रतिष्ठितः
Lemma: प्रतिष्ठा
POS: 1. Ā.
आदानम्
Lemma: आदान
POS: n
अनृतं
Lemma: अनृत
POS: n
हिंसा
Lemma: हिंसा
POS: f
धर्मो
Lemma: धर्म
POS: mn
व्यावस्थिकः
Lemma: व्यावस्थिक
POS: adj
स्मृतः
Lemma: स्मृ
POS: 1. Ā.
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Mahābhārata, MBh 12.37.9. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.
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