प्रार्थयेयं त्वया सख्यं पुनर् एव नरर्षभ ॥
वरं ददामि ते राजन् राज्यस्यार्धम् अवाप्नुहि ॥
अराजा किल नो राज्ञां सखा भवितुम् अर्हति ॥
अतः प्रयतितं राज्ये यज्ञसेन मया तव ॥
राजासि दक्षिणे कूले भागीरथ्याहम् उत्तरे ॥
सखायं मां विजानीहि पाञ्चाल यदि मन्यसे ॥
prārthayeyaṃ tvayā sakhyaṃ punar eva nararṣabha ||
varaṃ dadāmi te rājan rājyasyārdham avāpnuhi ||
arājā kila no rājñāṃ sakhā bhavitum arhati ||
ataḥ prayatitaṃ rājye yajñasena mayā tava ||
rājāsi dakṣiṇe kūle bhāgīrathyāham uttare ||
sakhāyaṃ māṃ vijānīhi pāñcāla yadi manyase ||
'I would seek your friendship again, O bull among men; I grant you a boon, O king: receive half the kingdom. For a non-king, they say, cannot be a friend to us kings; for that reason I have taken pains over your kingdom, Yajnasena. You are king on the southern bank of the Ganga, I on the northern; know me as your friend, O Panchalian, if you agree.'
8903a2db152b · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 4:53:33 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here Drona answers Drupada with his own argument, sarcastically — now himself become a king. Tellingly, he turns Drupada's old haughty rule ('a non-king is no friend to a king') back against him: by seizing half his kingdom, Drona makes himself a king, thereby removing the very 'inequality' by which Drupada once refused friendship. This is revenge refined — not by blood but by humiliation and mockery — as Drona exposes the pettiness of Drupada's old arrogance by fulfilling it to the letter. Tellingly, the 'friendship' offered is more bitter than enmity: it will forever wound the pride of Drupada, now stripped of half his realm. Scripture thus shows that revenge, even dressed in magnanimity, does not reconcile but only deepens the wound; and this 'friendship by force' will become the source of Drupada's undying hatred.