आचार्यम् ऋत्विजं चैव संयुक्तं च युधिष्ठिर ॥
स्नातकं च प्रियं चाहुः षड् अर्घ्यार्हान् नृपं तथा ॥
एतान् अर्हान् अभिगतान् आहुः संवत्सरोषितान् ॥
त इमे कालपूगस्य महतो ऽस्मान् उपागताः ॥
एषाम् एकैकशो राजन्न् अर्घ्यम् आनीयताम् इति ॥
अथ चैषां वरिष्ठाय समर्थायोपनीयताम् ॥
ācāryam ṛtvijaṃ caiva saṃyuktaṃ ca yudhiṣṭhira ||
snātakaṃ ca priyaṃ cāhuḥ ṣaḍ arghyārhān nṛpaṃ tathā ||
etān arhān abhigatān āhuḥ saṃvatsaroṣitān ||
ta ime kālapūgasya mahato 'smān upāgatāḥ ||
eṣām ekaikaśo rājann arghyam ānīyatām iti ||
atha caiṣāṃ variṣṭhāya samarthāyopanīyatām ||
"The teacher, the officiating priest, the kinsman, O Yudhishthira, the snataka, the friend, and the king -- these six they call worthy of the arghya. These, having arrived and being worthy, are so called [also] when they have dwelt [with us] a year; here they are, having come to us after the passing of a great span of time. To each of them, O king, let the arghya be brought; or else let it be offered [first] to the foremost, the most worthy of them."
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Bhishma sets forth not his own opinion but an established rule: six are worthy of the honorary arghya -- the teacher, the priest, the kinsman, the snataka, the friend, the king. It is significant that even here the matter begins with a rule, not with preference: before naming the most worthy, the wise one first affirms the law of honoring. The verse teaches that justice honors order: the rendering of honor is not arbitrary but follows dharma, which indicates to whom and for what honor is due. Only after establishing the general rule can the particular case be rightly decided; whoever wishes to judge rightly first recalls the law, and only then the persons.