Shloka 7

दुर्योधनस्य हास्तिनपुरप्रवेशः

Duryodhana’s Return toward Hastinapura; Karṇa’s Consolation

Devanagari script

धार्रराष्ट्रवर्धं कृत्वा वैराणि प्रतियात्य च । युधिष्ठिरस्थां पृथिवीं द्रक्ष्यसि द्रुपदात्मजे,“ट्रपदकुमारी! तुम शीघ्र ही देखोगी कि धृतराष्ट्रके पुत्रोंको मारकर और पहलेके वैरका भरपूर बदला चुकाकर तुम्हारे पतियोंने विजय पायी है और इस पृथ्वीपर महाराज युधिष्ठिरका अधिकार हो गया है

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca |

dhārtarāṣṭravardhaṃ kṛtvā vairāṇi pratiyātya ca |

yudhiṣṭhirasthāṃ pṛthivīṃ drakṣyasi drupadātmaje ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „O Tochter Drupadas, bald wirst du sehen, wie diese Erde unter Yudhiṣṭhiras rechtmäßigem Regiment gefestigt wird—nachdem die Söhne Dhṛtarāṣṭras erschlagen und die alten Feindschaften vollständig vergolten sind. So werden deine Gatten den Sieg erringen und die harte dharmische Abrechnung vollenden, die vergangenes Unrecht fordert.“

Word by Word

धार्तराष्ट्रान्the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (the Kauravas)

वर्धम्increase; prosperity (as an object/goal)

कृत्वाhaving done; having made

वैindeed; surely

वैराणिenmities; hostilities; feuds

प्रतियात्यhaving requited; having paid back (in return)

चand

युधिष्ठिरस्थाम्belonging to/under Yudhiṣṭhira; established in Yudhiṣṭhira

पृथिवीम्the earth; the kingdom

द्रक्ष्यसिyou will see

द्रुपदात्मजेO daughter of Drupada

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Kauravas)

Yudhiṣṭhira

Drupada

Draupadī (Drupadātmajā)

Pṛthivī (the earth/kingdom)

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 the coming victory as a restoration of rightful order: wrongs generate consequences, and when dharma is violated, justice may require decisive action. It also links political legitimacy (Yudhiṣṭhira’s rule) with moral reckoning (the repayment of long-standing enmity).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana addresses Draupadī, predicting that she will soon witness the defeat of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons and the settling of prior hostilities, culminating in the earth/kingdom coming under Yudhiṣṭhira’s sovereignty through her husbands’ victory.