Shloka 28
Kṣānti–Tejas Viveka: Prahlāda’s Instruction to Bali
Draupadī’s Application
हन्युहिं पितर: पुत्रान् पुत्राश्ापि तथा पितृन् | हन्युश्व पतयो भार्या: पतीन् भार्यास्तथैव च,पिता पुत्रोंको मारेंगें और पुत्र पिताको, पति पत्नियोंकों मारेंगे और पत्नियाँ पतिको
hanyur hi pitaraḥ putrān putrāś cāpi tathā pitṝn | hanyuś ca patayo bhāryāḥ patīn bhāryās tathaiva ca ||
যুধিষ্ঠিৰে ক’লে— “তেতিয়া পিতাই পুত্ৰক হত্যা কৰিব, পুত্ৰেও পিতাক; স্বামীয়ে স্ত্ৰীক হত্যা কৰিব, স্ত্ৰীয়েও স্বামীক।”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns of adharma at its extreme: when ethical restraint collapses, even the most sacred relationships—parent-child and husband-wife—are violated. It highlights how societal decay manifests first in the breakdown of family duties and mutual protection.
Yudhiṣṭhira is describing a grim condition of the world (a vision of moral degeneration), emphasizing that in such a time people turn violently against their own kin, signaling the inversion of dharma and the loss of social harmony.