Mahābhārata · 2.72.36
॥
Devanāgarī
एवं गावल्गणे क्षत्ता धर्मार्थसहितं वचः ॥
उक्तवान् न गृहीतं च मया पुत्रहितेप्सया ॥
Transliteración (IAST)
evaṃ gāvalgaṇe kṣattā dharmārthasahitaṃ vacaḥ ||
uktavān na gṛhītaṃ ca mayā putrahitepsayā ||
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
एवं गावल्गणे क्षत्ता धर्म-अर्थ-सहितं वचःevaṃ gāvalgaṇe kṣattā dharma-artha-sahitaṃ vacaḥ'thus, O son of Gavalgana, the Kshattri [Vidura] spoke a word joined with dharma and artha;
उक्तवान् न गृहीतं च मया पुत्र-हित-ईप्सयाuktavān na gṛhītaṃ ca mayā putra-hita-īpsayāthus he spoke, and it was not accepted by me — out of desire for my son's welfare.'
धर्मार्थसहितंdharmārthasahitaṃoriginal form "dharmārthasahitaṃ", added to complete the word-by-word coverage
पुत्रहितेप्सयाputrahitepsayāoriginal form "putrahitepsayā", added to complete the word-by-word coverage
Traducción
[Dhritarashtra:] 'Thus, O son of Gavalgana, the Kshattri spoke a word joined with dharma and artha; and it was not accepted by me — out of desire for my son's welfare.'
Versión
2cf59a5a25ab · publicado 16 jul 2026, 16:17:50 UTC
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The book of the assembly is crowned with the blind king's bitterest confession: the saving word had been spoken — 'and it was not accepted by me, out of desire for my son's welfare.' In this single verse lies the root of the whole war to come: a father's partiality, set above dharma and true benefit, rejected peace and chose destruction. 'Desire for the son's welfare' turned into the ruin of the son and of the whole line — for an illusory good, contrary to truth, always destroys the very one for whose sake it was imagined. Thus the tale of the assembly closes: the guilt for the coming war is laid not on fate, not on the gods, but on the free rejection of a truth clearly heard. The verse teaches that love which tramples dharma destroys both the one who loves and the one who is loved; that a rejected counsel of truth becomes a verdict against the one who rejected it; and that the greatest calamities of history are born not of ignorance, but of the conscious preference of partiality over truth.