वैशंपायन उवाच
धिग् अस्तु क्षत्तारम् इति ब्रुवाणो; दर्पेण मत्तो धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्रः ॥
अवैक्षत प्रातिकामीं सभायाम्; उवाच चैनं परमार्यमध्ये ॥
त्वं प्रातिकामिन् द्रौपदीम् आनयस्व; न ते भयं विद्यते पाण्डवेभ्यः ॥
क्षत्ता ह्य् अयं विवदत्य् एव भीरुर्; न चास्माकं वृद्धिकामः सदैव ॥
एवम् उक्तः प्रातिकामी स सूतः; प्रायाच् छीघ्रं राजवचो निशम्य ॥
प्रविश्य च श्वेव स सिंहगोष्ठं; समासदन् महिषीं पाण्डवानाम् ॥
प्रातिकाम्य् उवाच
युधिष्ठिरे द्यूतमदेन मत्ते; दुर्योधनो द्रौपदि त्वाम् अजैषीत् ॥
सा प्रपद्य त्वं धृतराष्ट्रस्य वेश्म; नयामि त्वां कर्मणे याज्ञसेनि ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
dhig astu kṣattāram iti bruvāṇo; darpeṇa matto dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putraḥ ||
avaikṣata prātikāmīṃ sabhāyām; uvāca cainaṃ paramāryamadhye ||
tvaṃ prātikāmin draupadīm ānayasva; na te bhayaṃ vidyate pāṇḍavebhyaḥ ||
kṣattā hy ayaṃ vivadaty eva bhīrur; na cāsmākaṃ vṛddhikāmaḥ sadaiva ||
evam uktaḥ prātikāmī sa sūtaḥ; prāyāc chīghraṃ rājavaco niśamya ||
praviśya ca śveva sa siṃhagoṣṭhaṃ; samāsadan mahiṣīṃ pāṇḍavānām ||
prātikāmy uvāca
yudhiṣṭhire dyūtamadena matte; duryodhano draupadi tvām ajaiṣīt ||
sā prapadya tvaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya veśma; nayāmi tvāṃ karmaṇe yājñaseni ||
'Shame on Kshattri!' — saying this, the son of Dhritarashtra, swollen with arrogance, looked at Pratikamin in the assembly and said to him among the noblest: 'You, Pratikamin, bring Draupadi; you have no cause to fear the Pandavas, for this Kshattri only bickers, a coward, and does not always wish us well.' Thus addressed, that suta-Pratikamin, hearing the king's word, went at once, and entering, like a dog into a lion's den, approached the queen of the Pandavas: 'Yudhishthira, intoxicated with the madness of the dice, has won you, Draupadi; go now to the house of Dhritarashtra; I lead you to service, O Yajnaseni.'
c1425b751822 · publicado 16 jul 2026, 16:03:37 UTC
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The narrator himself likens the messenger to a dog entering a lion's den: a dishonorable errand degrades the one who carries it out. It is telling that Duryodhana first "shames Kshattri [Vidura]" — having rejected the truth, he rushes headlong into wrongdoing. The verse teaches that one who spurns wise warning at once does the very thing he was warned against: having banished conscience, he acts without restraint. And sending for the queen as though for a slave is the height of a darkened mind's insolence: victory in a dishonest game seems to him license for any outrage. For one who has cast off conscience, nothing remains sacred; and his insolence grows until it reaches the limit beyond which retribution begins.