वैशंपायन उवाच
सभां गत्वा स चोवाच द्रौपद्यास् तद् वचस् तदा ॥
कस्येशो नः पराजैषीर् इति त्वाम् आह द्रौपदी ॥
किं नु पूर्वं पराजैषीर् आत्मानम् अथ वापि माम् ॥
युधिष्ठिरस् तु निश्चेष्टो गतसत्त्व इवाभवत् ॥
न तं सूतं प्रत्युवाच वचनं साध्व् असाधु वा ॥
दुर्योधन उवाच
इहैत्य कृष्णा पाञ्चाली प्रश्नम् एतं प्रभाषताम् ॥
इहैव सर्वे शृण्वन्तु तस्या अस्य च यद् वचः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
sabhāṃ gatvā sa covāca draupadyās tad vacas tadā ||
kasyeśo naḥ parājaiṣīr iti tvām āha draupadī ||
kiṃ nu pūrvaṃ parājaiṣīr ātmānam atha vāpi mām ||
yudhiṣṭhiras tu niśceṣṭo gatasattva ivābhavat ||
na taṃ sūtaṃ pratyuvāca vacanaṃ sādhv asādhu vā ||
duryodhana uvāca
ihaitya kṛṣṇā pāñcālī praśnam etaṃ prabhāṣatām ||
ihaiva sarve śṛṇvantu tasyā asya ca yad vacaḥ ||
Having come to the assembly, he [Pratikamin] uttered that word of Draupadi's: 'Whose lord were you, when you staked us?' — so Draupadi says to you.' But Yudhishthira became motionless, as though bereft of his senses; he answered the suta not one word, good or bad. [Duryodhana:] 'Let Krishna the Panchali, coming here, pronounce this question herself; let all here hear what she says, and what he says.'
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At his wife's question, Yudhishthira is "motionless, as though bereft of life" — the silence of a righteous man torn between truth and shame. It is telling that he does not lie or make excuses: he has nothing to say, for Draupadi's question strikes at the very injustice into which he cast himself. The verse teaches that silence is sometimes an admission: where there is no honest answer, one falls silent. And this very speechless stupor reveals the depth of his fall — he who always knew what dharma required to say is now mute, entangled in its own net. Yudhishthira's silence is more eloquent than words: it cries out how far his passion has led him, robbing him even of the gift of answering the one who loves him.