Shloka 4

Devanagari script

नहि मे ककश्षिदन्यो5स्ति विश्वासिकतरस्त्वया । सहायो येन संधाय मन्त्रयेयं यथा त्वया,वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय! जब राजा धूृतराष्ट्रने पाण्डवोंको इस प्रकार वारणावत जानेकी आज्ञा दे दी, तब दुरात्मा दुर्योधनको बड़ी प्रसन्नता हुई। भरतश्रेष्ठ) उसने अपने मन्त्री पुरोचनको एकान्तमें बुलाया और उसका दाहिना हाथ पकड़कर कहा, 'पुरोचन! यह धन-धान्यसे सम्पन्न पृथ्वी जैसे मेरी है, वैसे ही तुम्हारी भी है; अतः तुम्हें इसकी रक्षा करनी चाहिये। मेरा तुमसे बढ़कर दूसरा कोई ऐसा विश्वासपात्र सहायक नहीं है, जिससे मिलकर इतनी गुप्त सलाह कर सकूँ, जैसे तुम्हारे साथ करता हूँ

Transliteration

na hi me kaścid anyo 'sti viśvāsikataras tvayā | sahāyo yena saṃdhāya mantrayeyam yathā tvayā ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “Truly, I have no one else more trustworthy than you. There is no other ally with whom I can confer in close confidence and take counsel as I do with you.”

Word by Word

नहिindeed not / surely not

मेof me / my

कश्चित्anyone

अन्यःother

अस्तिis / exists

विश्वासिकतरःmore trustworthy

त्वयाthan you / by you

सहायःhelper, ally

येनwith whom / by whom

संधायhaving joined/associated (with), having conferred

मन्त्रयेयम्I might consult / I could take counsel

यथाas / just as

त्वयाwith you / by you

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Purocana (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

Duryodhana (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

Pāṇḍavas (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

Vāraṇāvata (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

Janamejaya (implied by context in the given Hindi passage)

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 highlights how the language of trust and intimacy can be used to enable secret political action. In the Adi Parva context, such ‘confidence’ is ethically ambiguous: loyalty becomes a tool for concealed, potentially unrighteous schemes, warning that trust without dharmic scrutiny can serve adharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the surrounding episode (Vāraṇāvata), Duryodhana privately draws Purocana into confidential counsel, declaring him uniquely trustworthy. This sets the stage for covert planning against the Pāṇḍavas, framed outwardly as ordinary royal instruction but inwardly as secret intrigue.