Shloka 3
Droṇa’s Defensive Stand and Abhimanyu Commissioned to Breach the Cakravyūha (द्रोणानीक-प्रतिरोधः; सौभद्र-नियोजनम्)
सत्यधर्मरतो दान्तो विप्रपूजादिभिग्गुणै: । सदैव त्रिदिवं प्राप्तो राजा किल युधिषछिर:,कहते हैं, राजा युधिष्ठिर सत्यधर्मपरायण और जितेन्द्रिय होनेके साथ ही ब्राह्मण-पूजन आदि सदगुणोंके द्वारा सदा ही स्वर्गलोकको प्राप्त हैं
satyadharmarato dānto viprapūjādibhir guṇaiḥ | sadaiva tridivaṃ prāpto rājā kila yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||
Sañjaya said: King Yudhiṣṭhira—devoted to truth and dharma, self-controlled, and endowed with virtues such as honoring the brāhmaṇas—is, as it were, ever assured of the heavenly world (svarga).
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links ethical kingship to spiritual merit: steadfast truthfulness and dharma, mastery over the senses, and reverence toward learned brāhmaṇas are presented as virtues that naturally lead to svarga—heaven is depicted as the moral consequence of character.
Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, pauses to characterize Yudhiṣṭhira’s moral stature. By praising his truth, restraint, and reverence for brāhmaṇas, Sañjaya frames Yudhiṣṭhira as inherently righteous—someone whose conduct is worthy of heaven even amid the turmoil of the war.