वैशंपायन उवाच
सा तेन च समुद्धूता दुःखेन च तपस्विनी ॥
पतिता विललापेदं सभायाम् अतथोचिता ॥
द्रौपद्य् उवाच
स्वयंवरे यास्मि नृपैर् दृष्टा रङ्गे समागतैः ॥
न दृष्टपूर्वा चान्यत्र साहम् अद्य सभां गता ॥
यां न वायुर् न चादित्यो दृष्टवन्तौ पुरा गृहे ॥
साहम् अद्य सभामध्ये दृश्यामि कुरुसंसदि ॥
यां न मृष्यन्ति वातेन स्पृश्यमानां पुरा गृहे ॥
स्पृश्यमानां सहन्ते ऽद्य पाण्डवास् तां दुरात्मना ॥
मृष्यन्ते कुरवश् चेमे मन्ये कालस्य पर्ययम् ॥
स्नुषां दुहितरं चैव क्लिश्यमानाम् अनर्हतीम् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
sā tena ca samuddhūtā duḥkhena ca tapasvinī ||
patitā vilalāpedaṃ sabhāyām atathocitā ||
draupady uvāca
svayaṃvare yāsmi nṛpair dṛṣṭā raṅge samāgataiḥ ||
na dṛṣṭapūrvā cānyatra sāham adya sabhāṃ gatā ||
yāṃ na vāyur na cādityo dṛṣṭavantau purā gṛhe ||
sāham adya sabhāmadhye dṛśyāmi kurusaṃsadi ||
yāṃ na mṛṣyanti vātena spṛśyamānāṃ purā gṛhe ||
spṛśyamānāṃ sahante 'dya pāṇḍavās tāṃ durātmanā ||
mṛṣyante kuravaś ceme manye kālasya paryayam ||
snuṣāṃ duhitaraṃ caiva kliśyamānām anarhatīm ||
And she, shaken by violence and by grief, the ascetic woman, fallen, wailed thus in the assembly, undeserving of such a fate: "I, whom kings saw only at the svayamvara, in the arena of contest, and never otherwise seen before -- have now been brought into the assembly! She whom neither wind nor sun had seen before in her own house -- is now beheld amid the assembly, in the gathering of the Kurus! She whose touch even the wind was not allowed before, in the house of the Pandavas -- is now endured being touched by a villain! These Kurus too endure it -- surely the age's time has turned perverse -- their own daughter-in-law and daughter, being tormented and undeserving of it!"
ba9ebe501ba4 · प्रकाशित 16 जुल॰ 2026, 4:12:36 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The queen's lament is also an indictment of a whole world fallen from its foundations: what neither wind nor sun had dared, a villain now does before all eyes. The images of the elements that never dared touch her measure the height of the purity now trampled -- and thereby blacken the baseness of those who trample it. It is telling that she names it the "perversion of the age" (kala-paryaya): Draupadi discerns in her own disgrace not chance but a sign of a darkened time, when kinship no longer protects but permits. The verse teaches that the violation of the innocent measures the decay of an entire community: where a daughter and daughter-in-law's torment is tolerated, the very dharma of the age has already broken -- and the cry of purity becomes a verdict upon the epoch.