यद्य् एवं वक्ष्यसे भूयो माम् अप्रियम् इह द्विज ॥
ततस् ते खड्गम् उद्यम्य जिह्वां छेत्स्यामि दुर्मते ॥
यच् चापि पाण्डवान् विप्र स्तोतुम् इच्छसि संयुगे ॥
भीषयन् सर्वसैन्यानि कौरवेयाणि दुर्मते ॥
अत्रापि शृणु मे वाक्यं यथावद् गदतो द्विज ॥
दुर्योधनश् च द्रोणश् च शकुनिर् दुर्मुखो जयः ॥
दुःशासनो वृषसेनो मद्रराजस् त्वम् एव च ॥
सोमदत्तश् च भूरिश् च तथा द्रौणिर् विविंशतिः ॥
तिष्ठेयुर् दंशिता यत्र सर्वे युद्धविशारदाः ॥
जयेद् एतान् रणे को नु शक्रतुल्यबलो ऽप्य् अरिः ॥
yady evaṃ vakṣyase bhūyo mām apriyam iha dvija ||
tatas te khaḍgam udyamya jihvāṃ chetsyāmi durmate ||
yac cāpi pāṇḍavān vipra stotum icchasi saṃyuge ||
bhīṣayan sarvasainyāni kauraveyāṇi durmate ||
atrāpi śṛṇu me vākyaṃ yathāvad gadato dvija ||
duryodhanaś ca droṇaś ca śakunir durmukho jayaḥ ||
duḥśāsano vṛṣaseno madrarājas tvam eva ca ||
somadattaś ca bhūriś ca tathā drauṇir viviṃśatiḥ ||
tiṣṭheyur daṃśitā yatra sarve yuddhaviśāradāḥ ||
jayed etān raṇe ko nu śakratulyabalo 'py ariḥ ||
"If you speak thus again, unpleasant to me, O twice-born, then, raising [my] sword, I will cut off [your] tongue, evil-minded one. And as for your wishing to praise the Pandavas in battle, O brahmin, frightening all the troops of the Kauravas, evil-minded one -- [there], where Duryodhana and Drona stand clad in armor, Śakuni, Durmukha, Jaya, Duḥśāsana, Vṛṣasena, the king of Madra, and you yourself, all skilled in war -- who indeed would overcome these in battle, even an enemy equal in strength to Śakra?"
84947259de76 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:40:45 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Beside himself, Karna threatens to cut out Kripa's tongue -- anger at the truth collapsing into a threat against a venerable elder, a brahmin. It is telling that this threat falls upon a teacher, a guru: wounded arrogance tramples reverence. The verse teaches that anger unable to bear rebuke drives one to baseness -- raising a sword against an unarmed sage; and one who threatens to take away truth's voice only confirms how sharply it has struck him.