Shloka 8

उद्योगपर्व — गान्धारी-उपदेशः

Udyoga Parva — Gandhārī’s Counsel to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

कश्चान्यो भ्रातृभार्या वै विप्रकर्तु तथाहति । आनीय च सभा व्यक्त यथोक्ता द्रौपदी त्वया,“तेरे सिवा दूसरा कौन ऐसा अधम होगा, जो अपने बड़े भाईकी पत्नीको सभामें लाकर उसके साथ वैसा अनुचित बर्ताव करेगा। जैसा कि तूने द्रौपदीके प्रति स्पष्टरूपसे न कहने योग्य बातें कहकर दुर्व्यवहार किया है

Transliteration

kaścānyo bhrātṛbhāryā vai viprakartu tathāhati | ānīya ca sabhā vyakta yathoktā draupadī tvayā |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “Who else could be so vile as to bring his elder brother’s wife into the royal assembly and then outrage her with such impropriety, as you did to Draupadī—speaking openly to her words that should never be spoken?”

Word by Word

कःwho

चand

अन्यःother

भ्रातृभार्याम्elder brother's wife

वैindeed

विप्रकर्तुम्to do wrong / to outrage

तथाthus, in that manner

अर्हतिis fit / deserves

आनीयhaving brought

चand

सभाम्assembly hall

व्यक्तम्clearly, openly

यथाas, in the way that

उक्ताspoken / said

द्रौपदीDraupadi

त्वयाby you

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Draupadī

sabhā (royal assembly)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes