कृतवान् यानि युद्धानि कर्णः पाण्डुसुतैः सह ॥
सर्वत्र पाण्डवाः कर्णम् अजयन्त रणाजिरे ॥
अजय्याः पाण्डवास् तात देवैर् अपि सवासवैः ॥
न च तद् बुध्यते मन्दः पुत्रो दुर्योधनो मम ॥
धनं धनेश्वरस्येव हृत्वा पार्थस्य मे सुतः ॥
मधुप्रेप्सुर् इवाबुद्धिः प्रपातं नावबुध्यते ॥
निकृत्या निकृतिप्रज्ञो राज्यं हृत्वा महात्मनाम् ॥
जितान् इत्य् एव मन्वानः पाण्डवान् अवमन्यते ॥
kṛtavān yāni yuddhāni karṇaḥ pāṇḍusutaiḥ saha ||
sarvatra pāṇḍavāḥ karṇam ajayanta raṇājire ||
ajayyāḥ pāṇḍavās tāta devair api savāsavaiḥ ||
na ca tad budhyate mandaḥ putro duryodhano mama ||
dhanaṃ dhaneśvarasyeva hṛtvā pārthasya me sutaḥ ||
madhuprepsur ivābuddhiḥ prapātaṃ nāvabudhyate ||
nikṛtyā nikṛtiprajño rājyaṃ hṛtvā mahātmanām ||
jitān ity eva manvānaḥ pāṇḍavān avamanyate ||
"Whatever battles Karna waged with the sons of Pandu, everywhere the Pandavas prevailed over Karna on the field of battle. Unconquerable are the Pandavas, dear one, even by the gods with Vasava at their head; and my foolish son Duryodhana does not understand this. Having seized from Partha his wealth, as if from the lord of treasures himself, my unwise son, like a seeker of honey, does not notice the precipice. Having by deceit taken the kingdom from the great souls, skilled in treachery, thinking them 'conquered,' he holds the Pandavas in contempt."
aeafd7261e3a · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:17:34 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The image of the seeker of honey, reaching for sweetness and not seeing the abyss underfoot, is exact: greed blinds the eye, and what is won by deceit seems a secure possession. It is telling — "jitān iti manvānaḥ" — he thinks the unconquerable ones conquered: self-deception is more ruinous than an enemy's strength. The verse teaches that what is wrongly taken is not what is truly won, and contempt for those merely deceived rather than defeated leads straight to the precipice.