Shloka 293

Devanagari script

यत्र युध्यामहे सर्वे धनलो भात्‌ समागता: । हमें धनसे या धन पानेकी इच्छासे क्‍या प्रयोजन है? जो हम सब लोग यहाँ धनके लोभसे एकत्र होकर जूझ रहे हैं

Transliteration

yatra yudhyāmahe sarve dhanalobhāt samāgatāḥ |

Translation

Duryodhana said: “Here we are all engaged in battle, having assembled out of greed for wealth.” In context, the line exposes the moral corrosion of the conflict: the war is framed not as a righteous duty but as a struggle driven by acquisitiveness, implicitly questioning the ethical legitimacy of such motivation.

Word by Word

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र

• युध्यामहे: we fight
• युध्यामहे: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: युध्
• Form: Lat (present), 1, plural, Atmanepada

• सर्वे: all (of us)
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• धनलुब्धाः: greedy for wealth
• धनलुब्धाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धन-लुब्ध
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• समागताः: assembled, having come together
• समागताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-गम्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

दुर्योधन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Duryodhana