Shloka 3

Devanagari script

दुर्योधनं समासाद्य सामात्यं भरतर्षभ । दुःखारतों भरतश्रेष्ठमिदं वचनमब्रवीत्‌,वैशम्पायनजीने कहा--भरतकुलभूषण जनमेजय! परम बुद्धिमान्‌ राजा धूृतराष्ट्रने पाण्डवोंको जानेकी आज्ञा दे दी, यह जानकर दुःशासन शीघ्र ही अपने भाई भरतश्रेष्ठ दुर्योधनके पास, जो अपने मन्त्रियों (कर्ण एवं शकुनि)-के साथ बैठा था, गया और दु:ःखसे पीड़ित होकर इस प्रकार बोला

Transliteration

duryodhanaṃ samāsādya sāmātyaṃ bharatarṣabha | duḥkhārto bharataśreṣṭham idaṃ vacanam abravīt ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „O Stier unter den Bhāratas, als er sich Duryodhana näherte, der mit seinen Ministern beisammensaß, redete der vom Kummer Gepeinigte den Vornehmsten der Bhāratas mit folgenden Worten an.“

Word by Word

दुर्योधनम्Duryodhana (as object: to Duryodhana)

समासाद्यhaving approached

स-अमात्यम्together with ministers

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

दुःख-आर्तःafflicted with sorrow

भरतश्रेष्ठम्the best of the Bharatas (as addressee/object)

इदम्this

वचनम्speech, words

अब्रवीत्said, spoke

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Janamejaya

Duryodhana

ministers (āmātya)

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?

The verse highlights how sorrow and agitation can propel political actors toward impulsive counsel and factional decision-making; it foreshadows ethically charged choices where emotion, not dharma, may dominate deliberation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator describes a distressed figure approaching Duryodhana, who is seated with his advisers, and beginning to speak—introducing the next exchange in the Sabha Parva’s unfolding conflict.