Shloka 58
निर्वासनं च नगरात् प्रव्रज्या च परंतप । नानाविधानां दुःखानामभिज्ञास्मि जनार्दन,“परंतप जनार्दन! पाण्डवोंका नगरसे निकाला जाना तथा उनका वनमें रहनेके लिये बाध्य होना आदि नाना प्रकारके दुःखोंका मैं अनुभव कर चुकी हूँ
nirvāsanaṁ ca nagarāt pravrajyā ca parantapa | nānāvidhānāṁ duḥkhānām abhijñāsmī janārdana ||
“O scorcher of foes, O Janārdana, I have known by direct experience many kinds of suffering—such as being driven out from the city and being forced into the life of exile and wandering.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds lived experience of adversity: banishment and enforced wandering are presented as concrete forms of duḥkha. Ethically, it underscores endurance and moral clarity amid injustice—suffering is not abstract but personally borne, shaping one’s resolve and discernment in dharma.
In the Udyoga Parva’s lead-up to war, the speaker recalls the hardships already endured—expulsion from the city and the compelled life of exile—addressing Janārdana (Kṛṣṇa) and invoking epithets like parantapa to frame the gravity of past wrongs and the emotional-moral weight behind the impending decisions.