Shloka 4
दुःशासन उवाच दुःखेनैतत् समानीतं स्थविरों नाशयत्यसौ । शत्रुसाद् गमयद् द्रव्यं तद् बुध्यध्वं महारथा:,दुःशासनने कहा--महारथियो! आपलोगोंको यह मालूम होना चाहिये कि हमने बड़े दुःखसे जिस धनराशिको प्राप्त किया था, उसे हमारा बूढ़ा बाप नष्ट कर रहा है। उसने सारा धन शत्रुओंके अधीन कर दिया
Duḥśāsana uvāca: duḥkhenaitat samānītaṃ sthaviro nāśayaty asau | śatrusād gamayad dravyaṃ tad budhyadhvaṃ mahārathāḥ ||
Duḥśāsana sprach: „O große Wagenkämpfer, diesen Reichtum haben wir unter schwerer Mühsal zusammengetragen, und doch verschleudert ihn jener Alte nun. Er hat die Güter der Gewalt unserer Feinde ausgeliefert—begreift dies klar!“
दुःशासन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how attachment to wealth and factional hostility distort judgment: Duḥśāsana frames an elder’s conciliatory or redistributive action as ‘ruin,’ revealing the ethical danger of seeing peace-making as weakness and treating shared resources as instruments of rivalry.
Duḥśāsana addresses the assembled great warriors, complaining that the family elder is wasting wealth that the Kauravas obtained with difficulty and has effectively handed it over to their enemies, urging the warriors to recognize and respond to this situation.