Дрона
न जानीषे पुरा त्वं तु गृह्णन्न् अक्षान् दुरोदरे ॥
शरा ह्य् एते भविष्यन्ति दारुणाशीविषोपमाः ॥
अप्रियाणां च वचनं पाण्डवेषु विशेषतः ॥
द्रौपद्याश् च परिक्लेशस् त्वन्मूलो ह्य् अभवत् पुरा ॥
क्व ते मानश् च दर्पश् च क्व च तद् वीर गर्जितम् ॥
आशीविषसमान् पार्थान् कोपयित्वा क्व यास्यसि ॥
na jānīṣe purā tvaṃ tu gṛhṇann akṣān durodare ||
śarā hy ete bhaviṣyanti dāruṇāśīviṣopamāḥ ||
apriyāṇāṃ ca vacanaṃ pāṇḍaveṣu viśeṣataḥ ||
draupadyāś ca parikleśas tvanmūlo hy abhavat purā ||
kva te mānaś ca darpaś ca kva ca tad vīra garjitam ||
āśīviṣasamān pārthān kopayitvā kva yāsyasi ||
"You did not know before, taking up the dice in the gambling hall, that these [dice] would become fierce arrows, like venomous serpents. And the unkind words toward the Pāṇḍavas especially, and the humiliation of Draupadī, were rooted in you long ago. Where is your pride and arrogance now, and where, O hero, is that boasting? Having enraged the Pārthas, who are like venomous serpents, where will you flee?"
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Droṇa traces the present arrows back to the former dice: "śarā hy ete bhaviṣyanti" — the dice of the gambling hall have turned into arrows. Draupadī's humiliation, "tvanmūlaḥ," is rooted in Duḥśāsana himself. It is telling that the wrong returns in the very form in which it was committed. The verse teaches the inevitability of retribution: the fruit of injustice overtakes the one who sowed it, clothed in the shape of his own deed — he who threw dice to humiliate now meets arrows, and Draupadī's outraged honor returns as a storm upon the offender's head.