Shloka 40

Devanagari script

प्रत्राजिता वनं सर्वे पाण्डवा: सह कृष्णया

Transliteration

pratrājitā vanaṃ sarve pāṇḍavāḥ saha kṛṣṇayā

Translation

কৃষ্ণা (দ্ৰৌপদী)-সহ সকলো পাণ্ডৱক খেদাই বনলৈ পঠোৱা হৈছিল।

Word by Word

• प्रत्राजिताः: driven away, expelled
• प्रत्राजिताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्र-त्राजित (√त्राज्/त्रस् caus. 'to drive away, expel')
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• वनम्: to the forest
• वनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पाण्डवाः: the Pandavas
• पाण्डवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सह: together with
• सह: Karana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह

• कृष्णया: with Krishna (Draupadi)
• कृष्णया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्णा
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

धृष्टह्युम्न उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Dhṛṣṭadyumna
• Pāṇḍavas
• Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī)
• Vana (forest)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical wrong of forcibly expelling the righteous from their rightful place. It frames exile as a consequence of adharma (coercion and injustice), thereby sharpening the Mahābhārata’s recurring lesson: power without righteousness produces suffering and invites moral reckoning.

What is happening in the narrative?

Dhṛṣṭadyumna recalls the Pāṇḍavas’ banishment—how they, along with Draupadī, were compelled to go to the forest. This remembrance functions as a moral indictment of the wrongs done to them and as contextual fuel for the ongoing war narrative in the Droṇa Parva.