Shloka 3
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 130: Kuntī’s Instruction on Rājadharma and Daṇḍanīti
इहैव पाण्डवा: सर्वे तथैवान्धकवृष्णय: । इहादित्याश्र रुद्राक्ष वसवश्च महर्षिभि:
ihaiva pāṇḍavāḥ sarve tathaivāndhakavṛṣṇayaḥ | ihādityāś ca rudrāś ca vasavaś ca maharṣibhiḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Here indeed are all the Pāṇḍavas; and here too are the heroes of the Andhakas and the Vṛṣṇis. Here are the Ādityas and the Rudras, and the Vasus as well, together with the great seers.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the political crisis as occurring under the gaze of divine and sage-like orders, implying that decisions about war are not merely strategic but ethically accountable within a larger dharmic cosmos.
The narrator points out who is present: the Pāṇḍavas and the allied Yādava clans (Andhakas and Vṛṣṇis), along with groups of gods (Ādityas, Rudras, Vasus) and great seers—emphasizing the magnitude and solemnity of the gathering.