तम् अतथ्यभये मग्नो जये सक्तो युधिष्ठिरः ॥
अव्यक्तम् अब्रवीद् राजन् हतः कुञ्जर इत्य् उत ॥
तस्य पूर्वं रथः पृथ्व्याश् चतुरङ्गुल उत्तरः ॥
बभूवैवं तु तेनोक्ते तस्य वाहास्पृशन् महीम् ॥
युधिष्ठिरात् तु तद् वाक्यं श्रुत्वा द्रोणो महारथः ॥
पुत्रव्यसनसंतप्तो निराशो जीविते ऽभवत् ॥
आगस्कृतम् इवात्मानं पाण्डवानां महात्मनाम् ॥
ऋषिवाक्यं च मन्वानः श्रुत्वा च निहतं सुतम् ॥
tam atathyabhaye magno jaye sakto yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||
avyaktam abravīd rājan hataḥ kuñjara ity uta ||
tasya pūrvaṃ rathaḥ pṛthvyāś caturaṅgula uttaraḥ ||
babhūvaivaṃ tu tenokte tasya vāhāspṛśan mahīm ||
yudhiṣṭhirāt tu tad vākyaṃ śrutvā droṇo mahārathaḥ ||
putravyasanasaṃtapto nirāśo jīvite 'bhavat ||
āgaskṛtam ivātmānaṃ pāṇḍavānāṃ mahātmanām ||
ṛṣivākyaṃ ca manvānaḥ śrutvā ca nihataṃ sutam ||
He, fearing untruth, plunged into dread, yet drawn toward victory, Yudhishthira spoke indistinctly, O king: "The elephant is slain." Before this, his chariot had been held four fingers above the ground; but the moment he spoke thus, his horses' [hooves] touched the ground. And hearing that word from Yudhishthira, Drona, the great warrior, scorched by his son's misfortune, despaired of life. [Feeling] himself as though guilty before the great-souled Pandavas, and remembering the rishis' word, and having heard of his son as slain...
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Yudhishthira's chariot, which before had floated above the ground by the power of truth, touched it the moment he bent his soul: a small untruth brought down the sign of his holiness. It is telling that the price of a half-truth is visible at once. The verse teaches that even a small departure from truth diminishes the righteous: that which raised him above the earth leaves him in the instant of duplicity; holiness is preserved not by deeds alone but by every word — for truth is the very power that holds a person above the dust.