Shloka 2
भीम उवाच प्रातिकाम्यनयत् कृष्णां सभायां प्रेष्यवत् तदा । न मया निहततस्तत्र तेन प्राप्ता: सम संशयम्,भीमसेनने कहा--जब प्रातिकामीकी जगह दूत बनकर गया हुआ दु:शासन द्रौपदीको कौरवोंकी सभामें दासीकी भाँति बलपूर्वक खींच ले आया, उस समय मैंने जो उसका वध नहीं कर डाला; इसीके कारण हमलोग ऐसे धर्मसंकटमें पड़े हैं
bhīma uvāca | prātikāmyānayat kṛṣṇāṃ sabhāyāṃ preṣyavat tadā | na mayā nihatatas tatra tena prāptāḥ sma saṃśayam ||
Bhima said: “When, acting like a mere servant-messenger, Duḥśāsana went in place of Pratikāmin and dragged Krishna (Draupadi) into the Kauravas’ assembly like a slave-woman, I did not strike him down then and there. Because of that failure, we have now fallen into this grievous moral peril and doubt.”
भीम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights moral responsibility and the ethical cost of inaction: failing to resist an obvious injustice at the decisive moment can lead to deeper, prolonged dharma-conflict and collective suffering.
Bhima recalls the earlier court episode in which Draupadi was brought into the royal assembly in a humiliating manner. He laments that he did not immediately kill the one who brought her, and he interprets their present crisis as a consequence of that restraint or failure to act.