वैशंपायन उवाच
अनुभूय तु राज्ञस् तं राजसूयं महाक्रतुम् ॥
युधिष्ठिरस्य नृपतेर् गान्धारीपुत्रसंयुतः ॥
प्रियकृन् मतम् आज्ञाय पूर्वं दुर्योधनस्य तत् ॥
प्रज्ञाचक्षुषम् आसीनं शकुनिः सौबलस् तदा ॥
दुर्योधनवचः श्रुत्वा धृतराष्ट्रं जनाधिपम् ॥
उपगम्य महाप्राज्ञं शकुनिर् वाक्यम् अब्रवीत् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
anubhūya tu rājñas taṃ rājasūyaṃ mahākratum ||
yudhiṣṭhirasya nṛpater gāndhārīputrasaṃyutaḥ ||
priyakṛn matam ājñāya pūrvaṃ duryodhanasya tat ||
prajñācakṣuṣam āsīnaṃ śakuniḥ saubalas tadā ||
duryodhanavacaḥ śrutvā dhṛtarāṣṭraṃ janādhipam ||
upagamya mahāprājñaṃ śakunir vākyam abravīt ||
Having attended the rājasūya, the great sacrifice of King Yudhishthira, together with Gandhari's son [Duryodhana], Shakuni Saubala, wishing to please him and having already learned Duryodhana's mood, approached Dhritarashtra — the lord of men whose eye was wisdom alone [for he was blind] — and, having heard Duryodhana's word, said to the greatly wise king:
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The narrator calls Dhritarashtra the one whose 'eye is wisdom alone': blind in body, he ought to see with his mind. Yet it is telling that even this eye will fail him — love for his son will blind his reason as well. The verse teaches that there is a blindness worse than the bodily kind: one who does not see with the eyes but perceives dharma is truly sighted, while one who has understanding yet shuts it before partiality is blind twice over. And it is to such a king that the flatterer Shakuni first draws near — for a sycophant always finds a path to a heart already inclined to heed evil. Where reason is darkened by love for one's own, there the counsel of a wicked advisor finds an open door.