तथा हि रत्नान्य् आदाय विविधानि नृपा नृपम् ॥
उपतिष्ठन्ति कौन्तेयं वैश्या इव करप्रदाः ॥
श्रियं तथाविधां दृष्ट्वा ज्वलन्तीम् इव पाण्डवे ॥
अमर्षवशम् आपन्नो दह्ये ऽहम् अतथोचितः ॥
वह्निम् एव प्रवेक्ष्यामि भक्षयिष्यामि वा विषम् ॥
अपो वापि प्रवेक्ष्यामि न हि शक्ष्यामि जीवितुम् ॥
tathā hi ratnāny ādāya vividhāni nṛpā nṛpam ||
upatiṣṭhanti kaunteyaṃ vaiśyā iva karapradāḥ ||
śriyaṃ tathāvidhāṃ dṛṣṭvā jvalantīm iva pāṇḍave ||
amarṣavaśam āpanno dahye 'ham atathocitaḥ ||
vahnim eva pravekṣyāmi bhakṣayiṣyāmi vā viṣam ||
apo vāpi pravekṣyāmi na hi śakṣyāmi jīvitum ||
"For indeed, taking various jewels, kings come before the king, the son of Kunti, like vaishyas paying tribute; having seen such splendor blazing as though with fire in the Pandava, I, fallen into the grip of envy and unaccustomed to it, am burning. I shall enter fire, or eat poison, or enter water -- for I shall not be able to live."
bca8c7f13070 · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 3:49:22 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Envy drives one to thoughts of death: another's happiness makes life itself hateful to Duryodhana. It is telling to what madness passion can lead -- it is ready to destroy itself rather than witness another's greatness. The verse teaches that matsarya, envy, is a kind of suicide of the soul: to prefer death to the sight of another's good is the height of perversion. And "unaccustomed to it" -- he who all his life has seen only his own primacy cannot bear another's. One who has not learned to rejoice in his neighbor's good finds mere existence a torment at the sight of it; and from such a root grow both wickedness and ruin -- his own and that of many.