शकुनिर् उवाच
बहु वित्तं पराजैषीः पाण्डवानां युधिष्ठिर ॥
आचक्ष्व वित्तं कौन्तेय यदि ते ऽस्त्य् अपराजितम् ॥
युधिष्ठिर उवाच
मम वित्तम् असंख्येयं यद् अहं वेद सौबल ॥
अथ त्वं शकुने कस्माद् वित्तं समनुपृच्छसि ॥
अयुतं प्रयुतं चैव खर्वं पद्मं तथार्बुदम् ॥
शङ्खं चैव निखर्वं च समुद्रं चात्र पण्यताम् ॥
एतन् मम धनं राजंस् तेन दीव्याम्य् अहं त्वया ॥
वैशंपायन उवाच
एतच् छ्रुत्वा व्यवसितो निकृतिं समुपाश्रितः ॥
जितम् इत्य् एव शकुनिर् युधिष्ठिरम् अभाषत ॥
śakunir uvāca
bahu vittaṃ parājaiṣīḥ pāṇḍavānāṃ yudhiṣṭhira ||
ācakṣva vittaṃ kaunteya yadi te 'sty aparājitam ||
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
mama vittam asaṃkhyeyaṃ yad ahaṃ veda saubala ||
atha tvaṃ śakune kasmād vittaṃ samanupṛcchasi ||
ayutaṃ prayutaṃ caiva kharvaṃ padmaṃ tathārbudam ||
śaṅkhaṃ caiva nikharvaṃ ca samudraṃ cātra paṇyatām ||
etan mama dhanaṃ rājaṃs tena dīvyāmy ahaṃ tvayā ||
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
etac chrutvā vyavasito nikṛtiṃ samupāśritaḥ ||
jitam ity eva śakunir yudhiṣṭhiram abhāṣata ||
[Shakuni:] "You have lost much of the wealth of the Pandavas, Yudhishthira; name still more wealth, Kaunteya, if you have anything left unlost." [Yudhishthira:] "My wealth is uncountable, as far as I know, O Saubala; why then do you, Shakuni, keep asking about wealth? An ayuta, a prayuta, a kharva, a padma, an arbuda, a shankha, a nikharva, and a samudra -- let all this be staked." Hearing this, Shakuni, resorting to deceit, said only: "Won!"
aec17b8e3dcb · 发布于 2026年7月16日 16:03:37 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
Shakuni is not satisfied with what he has won, but presses further: is there more? It is telling that greed knows no "enough": having stripped a man bare, it looks for what else to strip from him. The verse teaches that predation has no bottom -- it drives its victim toward ever new stakes until everything has been taken. Even the names of these vast numbers -- ayuta, padma, samudra -- only make the loss more grandiose: the larger the stake, the more crushing the defeat with loaded dice. Thus gambling, beginning with a trifle, swells into an "ocean"; and whoever has entered that river is swept ever further, unable to stop at the shore.