ततो दुर्योधनः कर्णः शकुनिश् चापि सौबलः ॥
द्रोणं द्वीपम् अमन्यन्त राज्यं चास्मै न्यवेदयन् ॥
अथाब्रवीत् ततो द्रोणो दुर्योधनम् अमर्षणम् ॥
दुःशासनं च कर्णं च सर्वान् एव च भारतान् ॥
अवध्यान् पाण्डवान् आहुर् देवपुत्रान् द्विजातयः ॥
अहं तु शरणं प्राप्तान् वर्तमानो यथाबलम् ॥
गतान् सर्वात्मना भक्त्या धार्तराष्ट्रान् सराजकान् ॥
नोत्सहे समभित्यक्तुं दैवमूलम् अतः परम् ॥
tato duryodhanaḥ karṇaḥ śakuniś cāpi saubalaḥ ||
droṇaṃ dvīpam amanyanta rājyaṃ cāsmai nyavedayan ||
athābravīt tato droṇo duryodhanam amarṣaṇam ||
duḥśāsanaṃ ca karṇaṃ ca sarvān eva ca bhāratān ||
avadhyān pāṇḍavān āhur devaputrān dvijātayaḥ ||
ahaṃ tu śaraṇaṃ prāptān vartamāno yathābalam ||
gatān sarvātmanā bhaktyā dhārtarāṣṭrān sarājakān ||
notsahe samabhityaktuṃ daivamūlam ataḥ param ||
Then Duryodhana, Karna, and Shakuni, son of Subala, considered Drona their island of refuge and mentally entrusted the kingdom to him. And Drona then said to the impatient Duryodhana, and to Duhshasana, and to Karna, and to all the Bharatas: 'The twice-born call the Pandavas invulnerable — they are sons of gods. But I, treating according to my strength those who have come to me for refuge — the sons of Dhritarashtra, who have come to me with all their soul and devotion, together with their king — I dare not abandon them; fate is the foundation of all, and beyond this there is nothing.'
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Drona is bound by the duty of refuge: they have come to him for shelter, and he cannot withdraw, even though he knows the wrongness of those who sought him and the invincibility of the Pandavas. Here is laid bare the tragedy of loyalty misdirected: the sacred duty to protect one who has turned to you binds the teacher to an unjust cause. It is telling that he says 'fate is the foundation of all': he foresees the outcome and still walks toward it, because honor forbids abandoning those who have trusted him. The verse teaches that even a high virtue — faithfulness to those who have taken refuge — can become a bond dragging one toward ruin, when it is the unworthy who have entrusted themselves to it; that duty unlit by discernment of truth leads the faithful to the wrong side; and that an appeal to 'fate' often masks an unwillingness to break a bond that ought to be broken.