Shloka 6

दुर्योधनस्य हास्तिनपुरप्रवेशः

Duryodhana’s Return toward Hastinapura; Karṇa’s Consolation

Devanagari script

अवश्यं च त्वया भूमिरियं निहतकण्टका । भर्तृभि: सह भोक्तव्या निर्दन्द्धेति श्रुत मया,“मैंने (महात्माओंसे) सुना है कि तुम अपने पतियोंके साथ निश्चय ही इस पृथ्वीका निर्द्धद्ध तथा निष्कण्टक राज्य भोगोगी

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca |

avaśyaṃ ca tvayā bhūmir iyaṃ nihatakaṇṭakā |

bhartṛbhiḥ saha bhoktavyā nirdagdhā iti śrutaṃ mayā ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Ich habe gehört, dass du gewiss zusammen mit deinen Gatten diese Erde genießen wirst—eine Erde, von Dornen befreit, deren Gefahren und Unterdrücker vernichtet sind und deren Drangsale wie verbrannt und ausgelöscht.“

Word by Word

अवश्यम्certainly, necessarily

चand

त्वयाby you

भूमिःthe earth, land

इयम्this

निहतdestroyed, slain

कण्टकाthorns; (fig.) enemies/obstacles

भर्तृभिःwith/through (your) husbands

सहtogether with

भोक्तव्याis to be enjoyed/ruled

निर्दग्धाburnt up, consumed; cleared

इतिthus (quotative)

श्रुतम्heard

मयाby me

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

the Earth (Bhūmi)

husbands (bhartṛbhiḥ; implied: the Pāṇḍavas)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames righteous rule as the removal of ‘thorns’—oppression, danger, and disorder—from the earth. It presents the ethical ideal that sovereignty is justified when it restores safety and moral order, and it also conveys assurance that such a just realm will be attained.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports a traditional assurance: the addressed woman will, together with her husbands, come to enjoy/hold dominion over the earth once it has been made ‘thornless’—i.e., after hostile forces and afflictions have been eliminated.