Shloka 86
“कृष्णे! पाण्डव तो नष्ट होकर सदाके लिये नरकमें पड़ गये। पृथुश्रोणि! अब तू दूसरा पति वरण कर ले। मृदुभाषिणि! आजसे तू राजा धुृतराष्ट्रकी दासी हुई; अतः राजमहलमें प्रवेश कर। टेढ़ी बरौनियोंवाली कृष्णे! पाण्डव अब तेरे पति नहीं रहे। वे तुझपर किसी तरह कोई अधिकार नहीं रखते ।। दासभार्या च पाज्चालि स्वयं दासी च शोभने । अद्य दुर्योधनो होक: पृथिव्यां नृपति: स्मृत:,'सुन्दरी पांचालराजकुमारी! अब तू दासोंकी भार्या और स्वयं भी दासी है। आज एकमात्र राजा दुर्योधन समस्त भूमण्डलके स्वामी मान लिये गये हैं
sañjaya uvāca | kṛṣṇe! pāṇḍavāḥ te naṣṭāḥ kṛtvā sadā-kṛte narake patitāḥ | pṛthuśroṇi! adhunā tvaṁ dvitīyaṁ patiṁ vṛṇīṣva | mṛdubhāṣiṇi! adya-se tvaṁ rājā dhṛtarāṣṭrasya dāsī bhavasi; ataḥ rāja-mahale praviśa | vakra-bhrū-late kṛṣṇe! pāṇḍavāḥ adhunā tava patayo na santi | te tvayi kathaṁcid api adhikāraṁ na labhante || dāsa-bhāryā ca pāñcālī svayaṁ dāsī ca śobhane | adya duryodhano ekaḥ pṛthivyāṁ nṛpatiḥ smṛtaḥ ||
Sañjaya said: “O Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī)! The Pāṇḍavas have been destroyed and have fallen into hell forever. O broad-hipped one, now choose another husband. O gentle-spoken lady, from today you are a maidservant of King Dhṛtarāṣṭra; therefore enter the royal palace. O Kṛṣṇā with arched brows, the Pāṇḍavas are no longer your husbands; they have no claim over you in any way. And you, O beautiful princess of Pañcāla, are now the wife of slaves and yourself a slave; today Duryodhana alone is regarded as king upon the earth.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage illustrates adharma through verbal violence: victory is used to justify stripping another’s dignity and agency. It warns that political power and battlefield success do not confer moral right, especially when expressed as humiliation, coercion, and the objectification of a woman.
Sanjaya reports a boastful proclamation aimed at Draupadi: the Pandavas are declared destroyed, Draupadi is told to accept servitude under Dhritarashtra and to choose another husband, and Duryodhana is asserted to be the sole king. The tone is triumphalist and intended to psychologically crush the Pandava side.