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dadasvannam dadasvannam dadasvannam yudhisthira
"Give food! Give food! Give food!" Thus spake Srikrsna to Yudhisthira, while advising him on dana, the discipline of giving, in the Bhavisyapurana.1
The Bhavisyapurana is probably recounting the conversation that takes place in the Mahabharata between Srikrsna and Yudhisthira at the culmination of the asvamedhayajha undertaken by the latter after the victory in the war. Before the yajha, Yudhisthira along with his brothers, and in the presence of Srikrsna, sits at the feet of Bhlsma lying on his bed of arrows, and at his request, the grand old man instructs the freshly anointed king of Hastinapura on all aspects of dharma. BhTsma's instructions run to about 25,000 verses, constituting almost a quarter of the epic, and comprising two major parvans, the santiparvan and anusasanaparvan of the Mahabharata. It is at the end of this great instruction that Bhlsma leaves his mortal body, and Krsnadvaipayanavyasa and Srikrsna advise the grief-stricken Yudhisthira to undertake asvamedha, the yajna of the great kings.
After performing the asvamedha, and being relieved of the great effort and activity that such a yajna involves, Yudhisthira wants to be instructed by Snkrsna himself on the intricacies of dharma. Srlkrsna's instructions run through another 1,300 verses, constituting the vaisnavadharmaparvan in the southern reading of the Mahabharata.
^havisya 4.169.2, p. 526
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GREATNESS OF FOOD AND THE GIVING OF FOOD
Towards the end of this grand discourse on dharma, Yudhisthira asks Srlkrsna for the essence of the entire teaching of BhTsma: bhismavdkyat sarabhutam vada dharmam suresvara?
To which Srlkrsna replies: annena dhdryate sarvarh jagadetaccara- caram... annadah pranado loke pranadah sarvado bhavet. tasmadannam visesena datavyam bhutimicchata? "The world, both animate an inanimate, is sustained by food... The giver of food is the giver of life and indeed of everything else. Therefore, one who is desirous of well-being in this world and beyond should make special endeavour to give food."
This is how Srlkrsna summarizes the monumental teachings of BhTsma. It is not for nothing therefore that the Bhavisyapurana renders the essence of dharma as conveyed by Srlkrsna in the urgendy imperative command: dadasvdnnam dadasvdnnam dadasvdnnam yudhisthira.
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