एवं ते सहसा राजन् धर्मपुत्रं युधिष्ठिरम् ॥
समानेष्यामि सगणं वशम् अद्य न संशयः ॥
यदि तिष्ठति संग्रामे मुहूर्तम् अपि पाण्डवः ॥
अथापयाति संग्रामाद् विजयात् तद् विशिष्यते ॥
evaṃ te sahasā rājan dharmaputraṃ yudhiṣṭhiram ||
samāneṣyāmi sagaṇaṃ vaśam adya na saṃśayaḥ ||
yadi tiṣṭhati saṃgrāme muhūrtam api pāṇḍavaḥ ||
athāpayāti saṃgrāmād vijayāt tad viśiṣyate ||
[Drona:] Thus, O king, this very day I will swiftly deliver to you the king of dharma, Yudhishthira, together with his followers, into your power — of that there is no doubt. If the Pandava [Yudhishthira] holds out in battle even a moment, I will take him; or if he abandons the field of battle, that is even better than victory.
f2dd85776505 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 3:00:04 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
For Drona, "the king's flight is even better than victory": his goal is not an honest outcome but the humiliation of the opponent at any cost, for so Duryodhana had ordered. Thus an unjust cause replaces valor with a calculation of the enemy's disgrace. Telling is the double trap: if he stands firm, I capture him; if he flees, I shame him — evil leaves the righteous man no worthy way out. The verse teaches that untruth seeks not victory in honest battle but the humiliation of its opponent; that a scheme in which every outcome is rigged to harm the victim is the very face of treachery; and that one who prefers the "enemy's disgrace" to a glorious victory reveals himself not as a warrior but as the instrument of another's malice.