Shloka 5

उद्योगपर्व — गान्धारी-उपदेशः

Udyoga Parva — Gandhārī’s Counsel to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

कथं च ज्ञातयस्तात श्रेयांस: साधुसम्मता: । अथान्याय्यमुपस्थातुं जिहोनाजिदह्यचारिण:,“तात! अन्यथा सदा सरलतापूर्ण बर्ताव करनेवाले और साधु-सम्मानित तेरे श्रेष्ठ बन्धु पाण्डव यहाँ तुम-जैसे कपटीके साथ अन्याययुक्त द्यूतके लिये कैसे उपस्थित हो सकते थे?

Translation

My child, your kinsmen—the Pāṇḍavas, whom the righteous esteem as the best—are ever straightforward in conduct. How, then, could they have come to take part in an unjust game of dice with a deceitful man like you?

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच