अन्धेनेव युगं नद्धं विपर्यस्तं नराधिप ॥
कनीयांसो विवर्धन्ते ज्येष्ठा हीयन्ति भारत ॥
एवं दृष्ट्वा नाभिविन्दामि शर्म; परीक्षमाणो ऽपि कुरुप्रवीर ॥
तेनाहम् एवं कृशतां गतश् च; विवर्णतां चैव सशोकतां च ॥
andheneva yugaṃ naddhaṃ viparyastaṃ narādhipa ||
kanīyāṃso vivardhante jyeṣṭhā hīyanti bhārata ||
evaṃ dṛṣṭvā nābhivindāmi śarma; parīkṣamāṇo 'pi kurupravīra ||
tenāham evaṃ kṛśatāṃ gataś ca; vivarṇatāṃ caiva saśokatāṃ ca ||
"As if harnessed by a blind man, the yoke is turned upside down, O lord of men: the younger increase, and the elder decline, O Bharata. Seeing this, I find no peace, however much I search for the cause, O hero of the Kurus; and so I have come to such thinness, to pallor, and to grief."
ee92965d343d · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 3:49:22 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
"As if harnessed by a blind man" — without noticing it, Duryodhana paints a picture of his own blind father, under whom everything went awry. His complaint that "the younger increase, the elder decline" is also telling: he measures worth by order of birth, not understanding that it is not seniority but dharma that raises one up. The verse teaches that it is not natural rank but righteousness that determines ascent: the Pāṇḍavas rose not against the order of things but by a higher law — the law of virtue. And the closing words — "thinness, pallor, grief" — are the fruit of envy: it dries up the body before it destroys the soul. Whoever grumbles that a good man is raised above him grumbles not against men but against heaven's own measure.