Shloka 43
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 28: Dharmādharmalakṣaṇa in Āpad
Crisis-Discernment of Right and Wrong
न ते गतिर्विद्यते याज्ञसेनि प्रपद्य दासी धार्तराष्ट्रस्य वेश्म | पराजितास्ते पतयो न सन्ति पतिं चान्यं भाविनि त्वं वृणीष्व
na te gatir vidyate yājñaseni prapadya dāsī dhārtarāṣṭrasya veśma | parājitās te patayo na santi patiṃ cānyaṃ bhāvini tvaṃ vṛṇīṣva, saṃjaya ||
বায়ুৱে ক’লে— “হে যাজ্ঞসেনী, এতিয়া তোমাৰ বাবে আন কোনো গতি নাই। ধৃতৰাষ্ট্ৰ-পুত্ৰৰ গৃহলৈ গৈ দাসীৰূপে আশ্ৰয় লোৱা। তোমাৰ স্বামীবিলাক পৰাজিত; এতিয়া তেওঁলোক তোমাৰ স্বামী নহয়। হে ভবিনী, আন এজন পুৰুষক স্বামী হিচাপে বৰণ কৰা, সঞ্জয়।”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how adharma operates through rhetorical coercion: an unjustly obtained ‘defeat’ is treated as legally and morally decisive to strip a woman of dignity and agency. It implicitly condemns the misuse of power and technicalities to justify humiliation.
A speaker reports the sabhā-insult: Draupadī is told she has no refuge, must become a servant in Duryodhana’s household, and should choose another husband because the Pāṇḍavas were ‘defeated’ in the dice-game—an assertion used to intensify her public dishonor.