Shloka 24

Devanagari script

अहो द्यूतस्य निष्ठेयं घोरा सम्प्रति वर्तते । अहो तीव्राणि दु:ःखानि दुर्योधनकृतान्यहम्‌

Transliteration

aho dyūtasya niṣṭheyam ghorā samprati vartate | aho tīvrāṇi duḥkhāni duryodhana-kṛtāny aham

Translation

হায়! দ্যূতক্ৰীড়াৰ সেই ভয়ংকৰ অন্তিম পৰিণতি এতিয়া প্ৰকাশ পাইছে। হায়! দুঃৰ্যোধনৰ কৃতকৰ্মৰ পৰা জন্ম লোৱা কিমান তীব্ৰ দুখ আমি ভোগ কৰিবলগীয়া হৈছে।

Word by Word

अहोalas!/oh!

द्यूतस्यof gambling/dice-play

निष्ठाend/result/culmination

इयंthis

घोराterrible

सम्प्रतिnow/at present

वर्ततेis occurring/prevails

अहोalas!/oh!

तीव्राणिintense

दुःखानिsufferings

दुर्योधनby Duryodhana

कृतानिdone/made

अहम्I

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Duryodhana

Dyūta (the dice-game/gambling match)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Unethical choices—here symbolized by the dyūta (gambling) episode—do not remain isolated events; they mature into severe, collective suffering. The verse highlights moral causality: adharma initiates a chain whose ‘final outcome’ becomes unavoidable when its consequences ripen.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, reflects with grief that the terrible culmination of the earlier dice-game is now manifesting on the battlefield. He attributes the present intense misery to Duryodhana’s actions, implying that the war’s horrors are the delayed fruit of that earlier wrongdoing.