ततः सूतस् तस्य वशानुगामी; भीतश् च कोपाद् द्रुपदात्मजायाः ॥
विहाय मानं पुनर् एव सभ्यान्; उवाच कृष्णां किम् अहं ब्रवीमि ॥
दुर्योधन उवाच
दुःशासनैष मम सूतपुत्रो; वृकोदराद् उद्विजते ऽल्पचेताः ॥
स्वयं प्रगृह्यानय याज्ञसेनीं; किं ते करिष्यन्त्य् अवशाः सपत्नाः ॥
tataḥ sūtas tasya vaśānugāmī; bhītaś ca kopād drupadātmajāyāḥ ||
vihāya mānaṃ punar eva sabhyān; uvāca kṛṣṇāṃ kim ahaṃ bravīmi ||
duryodhana uvāca
duḥśāsanaiṣa mama sūtaputro; vṛkodarād udvijate 'lpacetāḥ ||
svayaṃ pragṛhyānaya yājñasenīṃ; kiṃ te kariṣyanty avaśāḥ sapatnāḥ ||
Then the suta, [though] obedient to him, but afraid of the wrath of Drupada's daughter, setting aside his pride, turned again to the assembly: 'What shall I say [to her]?' [Duryodhana:] 'Duhshasana, this son of a suta of mine, recoils before Vrikodara, feeble-minded; go yourself, seize and bring Yajnaseni; what can the helpless rivals do to you?'
b60492b41d71 · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 4:03:37 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Even the suta under compulsion is afraid — not of Bhima alone, but of the wrongness of the deed itself: his dread of "the wrath of Drupada's daughter" is the voice of conscience. It is telling that Duryodhana now entrusts the wicked task not to a servant, but to his own brother: where the hireling recoils, kin steps forward as accomplice. The verse teaches that an evil deed is refused even by its own instruments, so long as shame still glimmers in them; and then the instigator takes an executor from among his own, in whom shame has already died out. "Helpless rivals" — blind arrogance: he imagines the Pandavas powerless, not knowing that he is forging his own avengers. Whoever, drunk with victory, tramples the defenseless does not see how the sword of his own destruction is being forged.