यदि नाम न युध्येरञ् शिक्षिता ब्रह्मबन्धवः ॥
स्वकर्मभिर् असंतुष्टा न स्म क्षत्रं क्षयं व्रजेत् ॥
अहिंसा सर्वभूतेषु धर्मं ज्यायस्तरं विदुः ॥
तस्य च ब्राह्मणो मूलं भवांश् च ब्रह्मवित्तमः ॥
श्वपाकवन् म्लेच्छगणान् हत्वा चान्यान् पृथग्विधान् ॥
अज्ञानान् मूढवद् ब्रह्मन् पुत्रदारधनेप्सया ॥
एकस्यार्थे बहून् हत्वा पुत्रस्याधर्मविद् यथा ॥
स्वकर्मस्थान् विकर्मस्थो न व्यपत्रपसे कथम् ॥
स चाद्य पतितः शेते पृष्टेनावेदितस् तव ॥
धर्मराजेन तद् वाक्यं नातिशङ्कितुम् अर्हसि ॥
yadi nāma na yudhyerañ śikṣitā brahmabandhavaḥ ||
svakarmabhir asaṃtuṣṭā na sma kṣatraṃ kṣayaṃ vrajet ||
ahiṃsā sarvabhūteṣu dharmaṃ jyāyastaraṃ viduḥ ||
tasya ca brāhmaṇo mūlaṃ bhavāṃś ca brahmavittamaḥ ||
śvapākavan mlecchagaṇān hatvā cānyān pṛthagvidhān ||
ajñānān mūḍhavad brahman putradāradhanepsayā ||
ekasyārthe bahūn hatvā putrasyādharmavid yathā ||
svakarmasthān vikarmastho na vyapatrapase katham ||
sa cādya patitaḥ śete pṛṣṭenāveditas tava ||
dharmarājena tad vākyaṃ nātiśaṅkitum arhasi ||
"If only the learned, unworthy brahmins, discontented with their own duty, had not fought, kshatriyahood would not have gone to ruin. Non-violence toward all beings they know as the higher dharma; and its root is the brahmin, and you are the foremost knower of Brahman. Having slain, like a chandala, hosts of mlecchas and others, sundry and ignorant, like a fool, O brahmin, out of desire for son, wife, and wealth; having slain many for the sake of one, for a son's sake, like one who knows not dharma — you, fixed in wrong action against those who stand in their own duty, how do you not feel shame? And he lies fallen today — the king of dharma, when asked, declared this to you; you ought not doubt that word too greatly."
3c39ae87b9aa · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 5:08:17 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Bhima strikes at the very root: the brahmin is the foundation of non-violence, yet Drona, for his son's sake and for wealth, has become a destroyer. It is telling that the reproach rests on Drona's own dharma: he is judged not by another's measure but by the very calling he has betrayed. The verse teaches that the fall of one who was a guardian of the highest is the heaviest of all; and a word that exposes a man's betrayal of himself strips away his will to go on — here it also artfully weaves in the fateful half-truth about his son.