शकुनिर् उवाच
बहु वित्तं पराजैषीर् भ्रातॄंश् च सहयद्विपान् ॥
आचक्ष्व वित्तं कौन्तेय यदि ते ऽस्त्य् अपराजितम् ॥
युधिष्ठिर उवाच
अहं विशिष्टः सर्वेषां भ्रातॄणां दयितस् तथा ॥
कुर्यामस् ते जिताः कर्म स्वयम् आत्मन्य् उपप्लवे ॥
वैशंपायन उवाच
एतच् छ्रुत्वा व्यवसितो निकृतिं समुपाश्रितः ॥
जितम् इत्य् एव शकुनिर् युधिष्ठिरम् अभाषत ॥
शकुनिर् उवाच
एतत् पापिष्ठम् अकरोर् यद् आत्मानं पराजितः ॥
शिष्टे सति धने राजन् पाप आत्मपराजयः ॥
śakunir uvāca
bahu vittaṃ parājaiṣīr bhrātṝṃś ca sahayadvipān ||
ācakṣva vittaṃ kaunteya yadi te 'sty aparājitam ||
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
ahaṃ viśiṣṭaḥ sarveṣāṃ bhrātṝṇāṃ dayitas tathā ||
kuryāmas te jitāḥ karma svayam ātmany upaplave ||
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
etac chrutvā vyavasito nikṛtiṃ samupāśritaḥ ||
jitam ity eva śakunir yudhiṣṭhiram abhāṣata ||
śakunir uvāca
etat pāpiṣṭham akaror yad ātmānaṃ parājitaḥ ||
śiṣṭe sati dhane rājan pāpa ātmaparājayaḥ ||
[Shakuni:] "You have lost much wealth, and your brothers with their horses and elephants; name still more wealth, Kaunteya, if you have anything left unlost." [Yudhishthira:] "I, the eldest among all my brothers and beloved by them -- defeated, we shall become your servants -- and I stake myself on this ruin." -- "Won!" [said Shakuni]. [And a verdict was heard:] "You have done the most sinful thing, in staking your own self; when wealth still remained, O king, staking oneself is sin."
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Yudhishthira stakes the last thing -- himself -- and loses; and at once a verdict is heard: "you have done the most sinful thing." It is telling that the summit of the fall is the pledging of one's own self: whoever has lost his own freedom has lost power over everything. The verse teaches that there is a measure beyond which loss becomes not misfortune but sin: to dispose of oneself as a thing is to defile the dignity granted by God. And "when wealth still remained" makes the reproach the more bitter: ruin was not inevitable -- it was chosen. Yet in the higher design even this defeat is a link in the purification of the world: from Yudhishthira's loss will be born the war that will lift the earth's burden from her. The fall of the righteous man here is not merely his own fault, but a thread in the hand of Providence, leading toward Kurukshetra.