Shloka 28

Duryodhana’s Post-Duel Lament and Instructions (भग्नसक्थस्य विलापः)

Devanagari script

हेतुकारणसंयुक्तैर्वाक्यै: कालसमीरितै: । क्षिप्रमेव महाबाहो गान्धारीं शमयिष्यसि,“महाबाहो! आप सम्पूर्ण लोकोंके स्रष्टा और संहारक हैं। आप ही सबकी उत्पत्ति और प्रलयके स्थान हैं। आप युक्ति और कारणोंसे संयुक्त समयोचित वचनोंद्वारा गान्धारी देवीको शीघ्र ही शान्त कर देंगे

Transliteration

hetukāraṇasaṁyuktair vākyaiḥ kālasamīritaiḥ | kṣipram eva mahābāho gāndhārīṁ śamayīṣyasi ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „O Mächtiger mit den starken Armen, mit Worten, die mit stichhaltigen Gründen und Ursachen verbunden und zur rechten Zeit gesprochen sind, wirst du Gāndhārī rasch besänftigen.“

Word by Word

हेतु-कारण-संयुक्तैःwith (words) connected with reasons and causes

वाक्यैःwith sentences/words

काल-समीरितैःuttered at the proper time / time-prompted

क्षिप्रम्quickly

एवindeed/just

महाबाहोO mighty-armed one

गान्धारीम्Gandhārī

शमयिष्यसिyou will pacify/console

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Gāndhārī

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?

Grief and anger are best addressed through timely, reasoned speech grounded in clear causes—counsel that respects both emotion and dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana predicts that the addressed hero (“mahābāho”) will soon calm Gāndhārī by speaking to her with appropriate, well-reasoned words in the tense aftermath of the war.