Shloka 27
यथा सभायां दूत॑ त्वं मातुलेन सहाकरो: । तथा युध्यस्व संग्रामे सौबलेन सुरक्षित:,राजन! जैसे राजसभामें तुमने मामाके साथ जूएका खेल किया है, उसी प्रकार इस संग्रामभूमिमें भी तुम उन्हीं मामा शकुनिसे सुरक्षित होकर युद्ध करो। (किसी दूसरेसे सहयोगकी आशा न रखो)
yathā sabhāyāṃ dūta tvaṃ mātulena sahākaroḥ | tathā yudhyasva saṃgrāme saubalena surakṣitaḥ ||
Kṛpa said: “Just as, in the royal assembly, you played the dice with your maternal uncle, so too fight now on the battlefield—protected by that Saubala (Śakuni). Do not look to anyone else for support.”
कृप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Kṛpa delivers a sharp ethical rebuke: the same dependence and complicity that enabled the wrongful dice-game should now be owned in war as well—implying that Duryodhana’s crisis is rooted in his earlier adharma and his reliance on Śakuni’s counsel. The line underscores accountability and the moral continuity between deceit in the court and peril on the battlefield.
In the Virāṭa Parva, as tensions move toward open conflict, Kṛpa addresses Duryodhana. He recalls the infamous dice-game in the sabhā, where Duryodhana acted with his maternal uncle Śakuni, and tells him to fight now likewise under Śakuni’s protection—effectively warning him not to expect others to rescue him from the consequences of that earlier course.