सहदेववचः श्रुत्वा नकुलो ऽपि विशां पते ॥
दर्शनीयतमो नॄणाम् इदं वचनम् अब्रवीत् ॥
सुतेयं यज्ञसेनस्य द्यूते ऽस्मिन् धृतराष्ट्रजैः ॥
यैर् वाचः श्राविता रूक्षाः स्थितैर् दुर्योधनप्रिये ॥
तान् धार्तराष्ट्रान् दुर्वृत्तान् मुमूर्षून् कालचोदितान् ॥
दर्शयिष्यामि भूयिष्ठम् अहं वैवस्वतक्षयम् ॥
निदेशाद् धर्मराजस्य द्रौपद्याः पदवीं चरन् ॥
निर्धार्तराष्ट्रां पृथिवीं कर्तास्मि नचिराद् इव ॥
sahadevavacaḥ śrutvā nakulo 'pi viśāṃ pate ||
darśanīyatamo nṝṇām idaṃ vacanam abravīt ||
suteyaṃ yajñasenasya dyūte 'smin dhṛtarāṣṭrajaiḥ ||
yair vācaḥ śrāvitā rūkṣāḥ sthitair duryodhanapriye ||
tān dhārtarāṣṭrān durvṛttān mumūrṣūn kālacoditān ||
darśayiṣyāmi bhūyiṣṭham ahaṃ vaivasvatakṣayam ||
nideśād dharmarājasya draupadyāḥ padavīṃ caran ||
nirdhārtarāṣṭrāṃ pṛthivīṃ kartāsmi nacirād iva ||
Having heard Sahadeva's word, Nakula too, O lord of the people, most handsome of men, spoke this word: 'These sons of Dhritarashtra, who, standing to please Duryodhana, made the daughter of Yajnasena listen to harsh speech in this game — these ill-behaved men, doomed to death, driven by fate — I will send in great numbers to the abode of Vaivasvata. By the command of Dharmaraja, following in the footsteps of Draupadi, I will before long make the earth free of the sons of Dhritarashtra.'
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And the last of the brothers seals the shared vow: all five are of one mind, and so their retribution is not scattered anger but a single will of justice. It is significant that Nakula binds his oath to the 'command of Dharmaraja' and to 'the path of Draupadi': his vengeance is subordinated to his elder and consecrated by the suffering of the wronged woman — it is not self-will but service. The words 'doomed to death, driven by fate' reveal that the persecutors have already brought about their own ruin: the one who requites merely carries out the sentence they have passed upon themselves. The verse teaches that brotherly unity in truth is invincible; that righteous punishment moves not by personal grievance but by the command of dharma and compassion for the victim; and that the wrongdoer who has trampled upon a defenseless woman has already signed his own sentence, which remains only to be carried out.