वैशंपायन उवाच
राधेयस्य वचः श्रुत्वा राजा दुर्योधनस् तदा ॥
युधिष्ठिरम् उवाचेदं तूष्णींभूतम् अचेतसम् ॥
भीमार्जुनौ यमौ चैव स्थितौ ते नृप शासने ॥
प्रश्नं प्रब्रूहि कृष्णां त्वम् अजितां यदि मन्यसे ॥
एवम् उक्त्वा स कौन्तेयम् अपोह्य वसनं स्वकम् ॥
स्मयन्न् इवैक्षत् पाञ्चालीम् ऐश्वर्यमदमोहितः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
rādheyasya vacaḥ śrutvā rājā duryodhanas tadā ||
yudhiṣṭhiram uvācedaṃ tūṣṇīṃbhūtam acetasam ||
bhīmārjunau yamau caiva sthitau te nṛpa śāsane ||
praśnaṃ prabrūhi kṛṣṇāṃ tvam ajitāṃ yadi manyase ||
evam uktvā sa kaunteyam apohya vasanaṃ svakam ||
smayann ivaikṣat pāñcālīm aiśvaryamadamohitaḥ ||
Having heard the speech of Radha's son, King Duryodhana then said to Yudhishthira, who was silent and seemed to have lost his senses: "Bhima, Arjuna and both twins remain in obedience to you, O king; settle then the question — say that Krishna is not lost, if that is what you think." Having spoken thus to Kaunteya and casting aside his own garment, he, as if smirking, looked at Panchali, deluded by the intoxication of dominion.
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Duryodhana tempts Yudhishthira with a deceptive loophole: let him only say that his brothers are obedient to him and that Krishna is not lost, and the snare will fall apart. But behind the ingratiating words lies a trap, for any answer entangles him deeper; the king's silence is not weakness but a refusal to step into the laid snare. It is telling how the phrase "the intoxication of dominion" (aiśvarya-mada) is used: power not grounded in dharma intoxicates worse than wine, breeding an audacity ready for any disgrace. The verse teaches that being drunk on power blinds a person to the point of desecrating what is sacred; and that there are temptations to which the only worthy answer is silence, yielding neither to flattery nor to threat.