Shloka 20
Adhyaya 60: Self-Assertion, Daiva, and the Rhetoric of Inevitability (उद्योग पर्व)
नैव देवा न गन्धर्वा नासुरा न च राक्षसा: । शक्तास्त्रातुं मया द्विष्टं सत्यमेतद् ब्रवीमि ते
naiva devā na gandharvā nāsurā na ca rākṣasāḥ | śaktāstrātuṃ mayā dviṣṭaṃ satyam etad bravīmi te |
Ayahanda! Aku mengatakan kepadamu kebenaran: para dewa, Gandharwa, Asura, bahkan para Raksasa pun tidak sanggup melindungi orang yang telah kujadikan musuh dan kubenci.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the force of unwavering intent: when hostility is firmly established, even extraordinary external powers cannot easily shield the target from the consequences. Ethically, it warns how destructive fixed enmity can become, overpowering ordinary safeguards and alliances.
In Vaiśampāyana’s narration, a speaker (addressing ‘you’) asserts that no class of superhuman beings—divine, celestial, or demonic—can protect the person whom the speaker has resolved to oppose. It functions as a dramatic intensification of threat and determination within the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war tensions.