अक्षद्यूतं महाप्राज्ञ सताम् अरतिनाशनम् ॥
असतां तत्र जायन्ते भेदाश् च व्यसनानि च ॥
तद् इदं व्यसनं घोरं त्वया द्यूतमुखं कृतम् ॥
असमीक्ष्य सदाचारैः सार्धं पापानुबन्धनैः ॥
कश् चान्यो ज्ञातिभार्यां वै विप्रकर्तुं तथार्हति ॥
आनीय च सभां वक्तुं यथोक्ता द्रौपदी त्वया ॥
कुलीना शीलसंपन्ना प्राणेभ्यो ऽपि गरीयसी ॥
महिषी पाण्डुपुत्राणां तथा विनिकृता त्वया ॥
जानन्ति कुरवः सर्वे यथोक्ताः कुरुसंसदि ॥
दुःशासनेन कौन्तेयाः प्रव्रजन्तः परंतपाः ॥
akṣadyūtaṃ mahāprājña satām aratināśanam ||
asatāṃ tatra jāyante bhedāś ca vyasanāni ca ||
tad idaṃ vyasanaṃ ghoraṃ tvayā dyūtamukhaṃ kṛtam ||
asamīkṣya sadācāraiḥ sārdhaṃ pāpānubandhanaiḥ ||
kaś cānyo jñātibhāryāṃ vai viprakartuṃ tathārhati ||
ānīya ca sabhāṃ vaktuṃ yathoktā draupadī tvayā ||
kulīnā śīlasaṃpannā prāṇebhyo 'pi garīyasī ||
mahiṣī pāṇḍuputrāṇāṃ tathā vinikṛtā tvayā ||
jānanti kuravaḥ sarve yathoktāḥ kurusaṃsadi ||
duḥśāsanena kaunteyāḥ pravrajantaḥ paraṃtapāḥ ||
“‘The game of dice, O wise one, destroys the joy of the worthy; there, among the unworthy, discord and disaster are born. This terrible calamity, with gambling as its gateway, you brought about without considering it, together with men of evil conduct and sinful consequence. Who else could so insult the wife of his kinsmen, drag her into the assembly, and speak to her as you spoke to Draupadi? She is noble, endowed with virtue, dearer than life, the queen of the sons of Pandu, and thus she was humiliated by you. All the Kurus know how Duhshasana spoke to the sons of Kunti in the Kuru assembly, when these vanquishers of foes were departing into exile.’”
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Krishna lays out before Duryodhana the concrete chain of his guilt: the game of dice, the humiliation of Draupadi, the attempts to kill the Pandavas, and the rejection of the elders' peaceful counsel. He then proposes a harsh political measure: for the sake of saving the family and the kshatriyas, bind the chief culprits, for dharma sometimes requires cutting off one destroyer so that the whole is not lost.