पितेव नित्यं सौहार्दात् पितेव स हि धर्मतः ॥
सो ऽल्पकालस्य राज्यस्य कारणान् निहतो गुरुः ॥
धृतराष्ट्रेण भीष्माय द्रोणाय च विशां पते ॥
विसृष्टा पृथिवी सर्वा सह पुत्रैश् च तत्परैः ॥
स प्राप्य तादृशीं वृत्तिं सत्कृतः सततं परैः ॥
अवृणीत सदा पुत्रान् माम् एवाभ्यधिकं गुरुः ॥
piteva nityaṃ sauhārdāt piteva sa hi dharmataḥ ||
so 'lpakālasya rājyasya kāraṇān nihato guruḥ ||
dhṛtarāṣṭreṇa bhīṣmāya droṇāya ca viśāṃ pate ||
visṛṣṭā pṛthivī sarvā saha putraiś ca tatparaiḥ ||
sa prāpya tādṛśīṃ vṛttiṃ satkṛtaḥ satataṃ paraiḥ ||
avṛṇīta sadā putrān mām evābhyadhikaṃ guruḥ ||
"'Like a father always in friendliness, like a father too by dharma -- for the sake of a brief kingdom he was slain, the teacher. By Dhritarashtra the whole earth was given over to Bhishma and to Drona, O lord of peoples, together with the sons devoted to it. He, having received such an estate, ever honored by others [the Kauravas], the teacher always preferred me above his own sons.'"
9553dc4add12 · publicado 19 jul 2026, 17:08:17 UTC
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Arjuna recalls that Drona loved him "more than his own sons" -- this is the man they destroyed for the sake of a brief kingdom. The contrast is telling: the eternal bond of teacher and disciple set against a "brief kingdom" -- the enduring sacrificed to the passing. The verse teaches that the sacred bond of love and guidance between teacher and disciple is beyond comparison with worldly power; whoever trades the eternal for the temporary makes no gain at all, but an irrecoverable loss.