“By gifts, by penances, by sacrifices, by peacefulness, and by self-control, all the castes led by the Brahmanas should, on such occasions, seek their own behoof.
भीष्म उवाच दानेन तपसा यज्ञैरद्रोहेण दमेन च। ब्राह्मणप्रमुखा वर्णाः क्षेममिच्छेयुरात्मनः॥