वैशंपायन उवाच
इत्य् उक्तवति पार्थे तु श्रीमान् माद्रवतीसुतः ॥
प्रगृह्य विपुलं बाहुं सहदेवः प्रतापवान् ॥
सौबलस्य वधं प्रेप्सुर् इदं वचनम् अब्रवीत् ॥
क्रोधसंरक्तनयनो निःश्वसन्न् इव पन्नगः ॥
अक्षान् यान् मन्यसे मूढ गान्धाराणां यशोहर ॥
नैते ऽक्षा निशिता बाणास् त्वयैते समरे वृताः ॥
यथा चैवोक्तवान् भीमस् त्वाम् उद्दिश्य सबान्धवम् ॥
कर्ताहं कर्मणस् तस्य कुरु कार्याणि सर्वशः ॥
हन्तास्मि तरसा युद्धे त्वां विक्रम्य सबान्धवम् ॥
यदि स्थास्यसि संग्रामे क्षत्रधर्मेण सौबल ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
ity uktavati pārthe tu śrīmān mādravatīsutaḥ ||
pragṛhya vipulaṃ bāhuṃ sahadevaḥ pratāpavān ||
saubalasya vadhaṃ prepsur idaṃ vacanam abravīt ||
krodhasaṃraktanayano niḥśvasann iva pannagaḥ ||
akṣān yān manyase mūḍha gāndhārāṇāṃ yaśohara ||
naite 'kṣā niśitā bāṇās tvayaite samare vṛtāḥ ||
yathā caivoktavān bhīmas tvām uddiśya sabāndhavam ||
kartāhaṃ karmaṇas tasya kuru kāryāṇi sarvaśaḥ ||
hantāsmi tarasā yuddhe tvāṃ vikramya sabāndhavam ||
yadi sthāsyasi saṃgrāme kṣatradharmeṇa saubala ||
When Partha had thus spoken, the glorious son of Madravati, valiant Sahadeva, raising his mighty arm and desiring the slaying of the son of Subala, spoke this word, with eyes reddened by anger, hissing like a serpent: 'Those dice that you take for dice, O fool, thief of the glory of the Gandharas — these are not dice but sharpened arrows, chosen by you for the battle. As Bhima has said, meaning you together with your kin, I shall be the doer of that deed — so prepare yourself in everything. I will swiftly slay you in battle, falling upon you together with your kin, if you stand your ground in battle by the law of the kshatriya, O son of Subala.'
d6e503d5f31b · 发布于 2026年7月16日 16:12:36 UTC
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Sahadeva, the gentlest of the brothers, utters a formidable vow — and thereby shows that the measure of indignation in the righteous is determined by the weight of the wrong, not by innate temperament. The image runs deep: the dice with which the deceiver played will, in their hour, turn into arrows — the instrument of fraud becomes the instrument of reckoning, for a man is punished by the very means of his sin. The condition 'if you stand your ground by the law of the kshatriya' is significant: even the avenger calls his enemy to honest battle, not to murder, as the other called him to deceit. The verse teaches that even the mildest of men rises up when what is sacred is profaned; that the instrument of sin turns, in its hour, against the sinner; and that righteous retribution, even in anger, keeps to the law, calling wrongdoing to the open judgment of arms.