Shloka 12

Devanagari script

दुःखात्‌ सुदुःखव्यसन प्राप्तवानस्मि संजय

Transliteration

duḥkhāt suduḥkha-vyasanaṃ prāptavān asmi sañjaya

Translation

Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: “O Sañjaya, from one sorrow I have fallen into an even graver calamity of suffering.”

Word by Word

• दुःखात्: from sorrow
• दुःखात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दुःख
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• सुदुःखव्यसनम्: a very painful calamity/misfortune
• सुदुःखव्यसनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुदुःखव्यसन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• प्राप्तवान्: have obtained/come to
• प्राप्तवान्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्राप्
• Form: Perfect (periphrastic), First, Singular, Masculine

• अस्मि: I am
• अस्मि: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Present, First, Singular

• संजय: O Sanjaya
• Type: Noun
• Root: संजय
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

धृतराष्ट उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sañjaya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Unchecked attachment and adharma-driven choices compound suffering: one sorrow becomes the seed of a greater calamity, illustrating how moral and political failures in war escalate grief.

What is happening in the narrative?

Dhṛtarāṣṭra, hearing battlefield reports from Sañjaya, laments that his distress has intensified—signaling a worsening turn in the Kurukṣetra war and the deepening consequences for his house.