Shloka 32
एवमुक्तस्तत: पार्थ: सव्यसाची धनंजय:
evam uktas tataḥ pārthaḥ savyasācī dhanañjayaḥ
Alors, ainsi interpellé, Pārtha—Arjuna, célèbre sous les noms de Savyasācī et de Dhanañjaya—répondit ; c’était l’instant où les questions pénétrantes du Yakṣa l’entraînaient dans une épreuve de discernement, de maîtrise de soi et de dharma.
यक्ष उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse signals a dharmic examination: even the most capable hero (Arjuna) must answer with clarity and restraint when confronted by a moral-intellectual challenge, emphasizing that prowess is secondary to right understanding and disciplined speech.
After the Yakṣa speaks, Arjuna—identified by his epithets Pārtha, Savyasācī, and Dhanañjaya—is introduced as the one now being addressed and poised to respond, continuing the Yakṣa’s interrogation sequence central to the episode’s ethical testing.