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Mahabharata: Where There Is Dharma, There Is Victory
In short
Yato dharmas tato jayah — where there is righteousness, there is victory. A verse of courage when doing the right thing is hard.
“yato dharmas tato jayaḥ”
Mahabharata · Bhishma Parva (a refrain repeated through the epic)Where there is dharma — righteousness — there is victory.
Famously spoken by Queen Gandhari to her son Duryodhana before the war at Kurukshetra: when he sought her blessing for victory, she would not bless an unjust cause, telling him only that victory stands where dharma stands.
What it means
Where there is dharma — righteousness — there is victory.
Famously spoken by Queen Gandhari to her son Duryodhana before the war at Kurukshetra: when he sought her blessing for victory, she would not bless an unjust cause, telling him only that victory stands where dharma stands.
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What does Mahabharata mean?
Where there is dharma — righteousness — there is victory. (Mahabharata · Bhishma Parva (a refrain repeated through the epic).) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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