SV: tyaja dharmam etc.

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Phillip Ernest [SMTP:phillip.ernest at UTORONTO.CA] skrev 8. april 2001 22:34:
> At the end of his article Sex and Yoga, J.M. (then J.L.) Masson quotes this
> shloka:
>
> tyaja dharmamadharmaM ca tyaja satyamasatyaM vaa
> satyaasatye ubhe tyaktvaa yena tyajasi tattyaja
>
> and gives no reference for it, presumably because it is so famous that it needs
> none.  But I need one.  Where is it from?

The following variant is from the Mahabharata:

0123180441 tyaja dharmam adharmam ca'ubhe satya anRte tyaja |
0123180443 ubhe satya anRte tyaktvA yena tyajasi tam tyaja ||

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