नैवं शम्बरहन्ताभूद् यौवनाश्वो मनुर् न च ॥
न च राजा पृथुर् वैन्यो न चाप्य् आसीद् भगीरथः ॥
यथातिमात्रं कौन्तेयः श्रिया परमया युतः ॥
राजसूयम् अवाप्यैवं हरिश्चन्द्र इव प्रभुः ॥
एतां दृष्ट्वा श्रियं पार्थे हरिश्चन्द्रे यथा विभो ॥
कथं नु जीवितं श्रेयो मम पश्यसि भारत ॥
naivaṃ śambarahantābhūd yauvanāśvo manur na ca ||
na ca rājā pṛthur vainyo na cāpy āsīd bhagīrathaḥ ||
yathātimātraṃ kaunteyaḥ śriyā paramayā yutaḥ ||
rājasūyam avāpyaivaṃ hariścandra iva prabhuḥ ||
etāṃ dṛṣṭvā śriyaṃ pārthe hariścandre yathā vibho ||
kathaṃ nu jīvitaṃ śreyo mama paśyasi bhārata ||
"Neither the slayer of Śambara [Indra], nor the son of Yuvanāśva [Māndhātṛ], nor Manu, nor King Pṛthu, son of Vena, nor Bhagīratha was ever so exceedingly endowed with supreme fortune as the son of Kuntī, who obtained the rājasūya like the lord Hariścandra. Having seen this fortune in Pārtha, as in Hariścandra, O lord — how do you consider my life worth living, O Bharata?"
96e6a80bfac0 · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 3:49:22 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Duryodhana ranks Yudhiṣṭhira above Indra, Manu, Pṛthu, and Bhagīratha — and yet cannot bear this very greatness. It is telling that a true acknowledgment of the righteous man's greatness does not bring the envious man closer to goodness but only deepens his despair: the more truthful his praise, the darker his thought of himself. The verse teaches that knowledge of the truth without love for it is torment: to know how high another stands and take no joy in it is hell. And "how is my life worth living?" is envy carried to the point of denying life itself. Where the righteous give thanks for what is granted and honor those greater than themselves, the envious man, having acknowledged what is greater, wishes himself dead: one and the same knowledge lifts one man up and casts the other down.