Shloka 15

Devanagari script

अनेन व्यवसायेन सहास्माभिरययुधिष्ठिर । अक्षानुप्त्वा पुनर्यूतमेहि दीव्यस्व भारत,भरतवंशी युधिष्ठटिर! इसी निश्चयके साथ आप आइये और पुनः पासा फेंककर हमलोगोंके साथ जूआ खेलिये

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: anena vyavasāyena sahāsmābhir ayayudhiṣṭhira | akṣān uptvā punar yūtam ehi dīvyasva bhārata ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “With this resolve, O Yudhiṣṭhira, come with us again. Having cast the dice, return to the gaming match and play once more, O Bhārata.”

Word by Word

अनेनby this

व्यवसायेनwith resolve/decision

सहtogether with

अस्माभिःby/with us

अयcome!/hey (interjection)

युधिष्ठिरO Yudhiṣṭhira

अक्षान्dice

उप्त्वाhaving cast/sown (thrown)

पुनःagain

यूतम्game of dice/gambling

एहिcome

दीव्यस्वplay (dice), gamble

भारतO Bhārata

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Yudhiṣṭhira

Bhārata (epithet of Yudhiṣṭhira)

akṣa (dice)

yūta (dice-game)

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?

A ‘settled resolve’ can be weaponized to push a righteous person into adharma: the verse highlights how social pressure and the language of duty can lure one back into a destructive vice (gambling), testing discernment (viveka) and steadfastness in dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the royal assembly context of the dice episode, Yudhiṣṭhira is urged to come again and resume the dice match—an invitation that functions as pressure to continue a contest already shown to be ruinous and morally compromising.