Shloka 6

Devanagari script

धनेन मत्ता ये ते सम धार्तराष्ट्रान्‌ प्रहासिषु: । ते निर्जिता हृतधना वनमेष्यन्ति पाण्डवा

Transliteration

dhanena mattā ye te samā dhārtarāṣṭrān prahāsiṣuḥ | te nirjitā hṛtadhanā vanam eṣyanti pāṇḍavāḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana dijo: «Aquellos que, embriagados por su riqueza, solían burlarse de los hijos de Dhṛtarāṣṭra—esos mismos Pāṇḍavas, ahora vencidos y despojados de sus bienes, se encaminan al bosque».

Word by Word

• धनेन: by/with wealth
• धनेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धन
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• मत्ताः: intoxicated, arrogant
• मत्ताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मत्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ये: who
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ते: those (they)
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• समम्: together; in common; equally
• समम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम

• धार्तराष्ट्रान्: the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Kauravas)
• धार्तराष्ट्रान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धार्तराष्ट्र
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• प्रहासिषुः: laughed at, mocked
• प्रहासिषुः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-हस्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Plural

• ते: they (those very ones)
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• निर्जिताः: defeated, conquered
• निर्जिताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निर्जित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• हृतधनाः: whose wealth has been taken away
• हृतधनाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हृतधन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• वनम्: to the forest
• वनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• एष्यन्ति: will go
• एष्यन्ति: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: इ
• Form: Future (Luṭ), 3rd, Plural

• पाण्डवाः: the Pāṇḍavas
• पाण्डवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Pāṇḍavas
• Dhārtarāṣṭras (Kauravas; sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• forest (vana)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Wealth can breed arrogance and cruelty (mockery), but worldly prosperity is unstable; ethical lapses committed in pride are exposed when fortune turns, reminding one to practice humility and restraint.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the aftermath of the Sabhā events, the Pāṇḍavas are portrayed as defeated and dispossessed, compelled to depart for forest exile—an inversion of their earlier status and a moment of public humiliation.