Shloka 42
उद्योगपर्व — अध्याय ८१: कृष्णस्य दूतप्रयाणम्
Udyoga Parva, Chapter 81: Krishna Sets Out as Envoy
“आज भीमसेनके संधिके लिये कहे गये वचन मेरे हृदयमें बाणके समान लगे हैं, जिनसे पीड़ित होकर मेरा कलेजा फटा जा रहा है। हाय! ये महाबाहु आज (मेरे अपमानको भुलाकर) केवल धर्मका ही ध्यान धर रहे हैं ।।
ity uktvā bāṣpa-ruddhena kaṇṭhenāyata-locanā | ruroda kṛṣṇā sotkampaṃ sa-svaraṃ bāṣpa-gadgadam ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “Even today, the words Bhīmasena spoke for peace strike my heart like arrows; tormented by them, my very breast is splitting. Alas—this mighty-armed hero, as though forgetting my humiliation, fixes his mind only on dharma.” Having said this, Kṛṣṇā, Drupada’s daughter, her throat choked with tears and her eyes long and wide, began to weep—trembling, crying aloud, her voice breaking thick with sobs.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the ethical tension between personal injury and dharma: even when wronged, the protagonists’ restraint in the name of righteousness can intensify the victim’s anguish, showing how dharma is emotionally costly and not merely a rule but a lived burden.
After speaking about her pain and the situation, Draupadī’s voice is overwhelmed by tears; she trembles and breaks into loud sobbing, signaling the depth of her grief and indignation as the story moves toward the crisis that will culminate in war.