यो हि धर्मं परित्यज्य भवत्य् अर्थपरो नरः ॥
सो ऽस्माच् च हीयते लोकात् क्षुद्रभावं च गच्छति ॥
अद्य चाप्य् अस्य राष्ट्रस्य हतोत्साहस्य संजय ॥
अवशेषं न पश्यामि ककुदे मृदिते सति ॥
कथं स्याद् अवशेषं हि धुर्ययोर् अभ्यतीतयोः ॥
यौ नित्यम् अनुजीवामः क्षमिणौ पुरुषर्षभौ ॥
yo hi dharmaṃ parityajya bhavaty arthaparo naraḥ ||
so 'smāc ca hīyate lokāt kṣudrabhāvaṃ ca gacchati ||
adya cāpy asya rāṣṭrasya hatotsāhasya saṃjaya ||
avaśeṣaṃ na paśyāmi kakude mṛdite sati ||
kathaṃ syād avaśeṣaṃ hi dhuryayor abhyatītayoḥ ||
yau nityam anujīvāmaḥ kṣamiṇau puruṣarṣabhau ||
For a man who, forsaking dharma, becomes devoted to gain — he falls away from this world and sinks into insignificance. And now, O Sanjaya, for this kingdom whose spirit has waned, I see no remainder, when its backbone is crushed. How can there be a remainder, when the two yoke-bearers by whom we were always sustained have departed — those most forbearing bulls among men?
11dac522f2a6 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 3:11:21 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Dhritarashtra himself pronounces judgment on himself and his son: "whoever, forsaking dharma, is devoted to gain, falls away from the world and sinks into insignificance." He knows the law — and yet transgressed it. And he mourns the death of Bhishma and Drona, "the two yoke-bearers," as the loss of the kingdom's backbone. It is telling that he calls its support precisely "the most forbearing" — those who long endured Duryodhana's wrongdoing. The verse teaches that one who prefers gain to dharma loses both this world and the next — this is an immutable law, understood even by one who transgresses it; that a kingdom rests not on numbers but on a few righteous pillars, and with their fall everything collapses; and that the bitterest loss is that of the long-suffering, whose forbearance alone held back a house from a ruin it had long deserved.