युधिष्ठिर उवाच
शतं दासीसहस्राणि तरुण्यो मे प्रभद्रिकाः ॥
कम्बुकेयूरधारिण्यो निष्ककण्ठ्यः स्वलंकृताः ॥
महार्हमाल्याभरणाः सुवस्त्राश् चन्दनोक्षिताः ॥
मणीन् हेम च बिभ्रत्यः सर्वा वै सूक्ष्मवाससः ॥
अनुसेवां चरन्तीमाः कुशला नृत्यसामसु ॥
स्नातकानाम् अमात्यानां राज्ञां च मम शासनात् ॥
एतद् राजन् धनं मह्यं तेन दीव्याम्य् अहं त्वया ॥
वैशंपायन उवाच
एतच् छ्रुत्वा व्यवसितो निकृतिं समुपाश्रितः ॥
जितम् इत्य् एव शकुनिर् युधिष्ठिरम् अभाषत ॥
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
śataṃ dāsīsahasrāṇi taruṇyo me prabhadrikāḥ ||
kambukeyūradhāriṇyo niṣkakaṇṭhyaḥ svalaṃkṛtāḥ ||
mahārhamālyābharaṇāḥ suvastrāś candanokṣitāḥ ||
maṇīn hema ca bibhratyaḥ sarvā vai sūkṣmavāsasaḥ ||
anusevāṃ carantīmāḥ kuśalā nṛtyasāmasu ||
snātakānām amātyānāṃ rājñāṃ ca mama śāsanāt ||
etad rājan dhanaṃ mahyaṃ tena dīvyāmy ahaṃ tvayā ||
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
etac chrutvā vyavasito nikṛtiṃ samupāśritaḥ ||
jitam ity eva śakunir yudhiṣṭhiram abhāṣata ||
[Yudhishthira:] "A hundred thousand serving maids are mine — young, excellent, wearing conch-shell bracelets and golden necklaces, beautifully adorned, in precious garlands and ornaments, in fine garments anointed with sandalwood, bearing jewels and gold, all in delicate raiment, skilled in dance and song, attending at my command upon snatakas, ministers, and kings." Hearing this, Shakuni, resolved and having resorted to deceit, said to Yudhishthira only: "Won!"
de7ca64e2929 · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 4:03:36 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here for the first time it is not things but people who go into the stake — serving maids. It is telling that the game, having begun with gold, has imperceptibly shifted to the living: once you allow yourself to stake possessions, you will not stop short of staking people either. The verse teaches how evil moves down an incline: the boundary has blurred, and a human being turns into "wealth," into part of the stake. And this substitution — people for things — is the dark threshold to the most terrible thing of all: soon the brothers themselves will be staked, and the player himself, and Draupadi. One who has once counted a living being as property has already opened the door to boundless fall; dehumanization begins unnoticed — with a person being entered into the inventory of goods.