Mahabharata · Chapter 12.365
upadeśaṃ tu te vipra kariṣye'haṃ yathākramam /
guruṇā me yathākhyātamarthatattvaṃ tu me śṛṇu //
yatra pūrvābhisarge vai dharmacakraṃ pravartitam /
naimiṣe gomatītīre tatra nāgahrado mahān //
samagraisridaśaistatra iṣṭamāsīddvijarṣabha /
yatrendrātikramaṃ cakre mādhātā rājasattamaḥ //
kṛtādhivāso dharmātmā tatra cakṣuḥśravā mahān /
padmanābho mahānāgaḥ padma ityeva viśrutaḥ //
sa vācā karmaṇā caiva manasā ca dvijarṣabhaḥ /
prasādayati bhūtāni trividhe vartmani sthitaḥ //
sāmnā bhedena dānena daṇaḍeneti caturvidham /
pipamasthaṃ samasthaṃ ca cakṣurdhyānena rakṣati //
tamatikramya vidhinā praṣṭumarhasi kāṅkṣittam /
sa te paramakaṃ dharmaṃ na mithyā darśayiṣyarati //
sa hi sarvātithirnāṇo buddhiśāstraviśāradaḥ /
guṇairanupamairyuktaḥ samastairābhikāmikaiḥ //
prakṛtyā nityasalilo nityamadhyayane rataḥ /
tapodamābhyāṃ saṃyukto vṛttenānavareṇa ca //
yajvā dānapatiḥ kṣānto vṛtte ca parame sthitaḥ /
satyavāganasūyuśca śīlavānniyatendriyaḥ //
śeṣānnabhoktā vacanānukūlo hitārjavotkṛṣṭakṛtākṛtajñaḥ /
avairakṛdbhūtahite niyukto gaṅgāhradāmbhobhijanopapannaḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0