Shloka 81
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 71 — Kṣatra-dharma Counsel, Public Legitimacy, and Mobilization
मोचयेयं मृत्युपाशात् संरब्धान् कुरुसृंजयान् । पाण्डवान् धार्तराष्ट्रांक्ष सर्वां च पृथिवीमिमाम्
mocayeyam mṛtyupāśāt saṃrabdhān kurusṛñjayān | pāṇḍavān dhārtarāṣṭrāṃś ca sarvāṃ ca pṛthivīm imām ||
এমন হলে, পরস্পরের প্রতি ক্রোধে দগ্ধ এই কুরু ও সৃঞ্জয়দের, পাণ্ডবদের এবং ধৃতরাষ্ট্র-পুত্রদের—এবং এই সমগ্র পৃথিবীকেও—আমি যেন মৃত্যুর পাশ থেকে মুক্ত করে দেব।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Unchecked anger (saṃrambha) leads communities toward collective ruin; therefore, preventing war is portrayed as an act of dharma that ‘frees’ not only individuals but the whole world from the death-snare.
In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war diplomacy context, the narrator reports a resolve/claim that if reconciliation succeeds, the speaker would effectively save the enraged factions—Kurus, Sṛñjayas, Pāṇḍavas, and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons—and even the earth itself from the catastrophe of war.