Shloka 6
कुन्ती-युधिष्ठिरसंवादः
Kuntī–Yudhiṣṭhira Dialogue on Bhīma’s Mission
ते वयं धृतराष्ट्रस्य प्रेषयामो दुरात्मन: । संवृत्तस्ते पर: काम: पाण्डवान् दग्धवानसि,“अब हमलोग दुरात्मा धृतराष्ट्रके पास यह संदेश भेज दें कि तुम्हारी सबसे बड़ी कामना पूरी हो गयी। तुम पाण्डवोंको जलानेमें सफल हो गये”
te vayaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭrasya preṣayāmo durātmanaḥ | saṃvṛttas te paraḥ kāmaḥ pāṇḍavān dagdhavān asi ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Come, let us send this message to the wicked Dhṛtarāṣṭra: ‘Your greatest desire has been fulfilled. You have succeeded in burning the Pāṇḍavas.’” The line is spoken with bitter irony, exposing the moral collapse in wishing harm upon one’s own kin and treating catastrophe as the satisfaction of desire.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how desire (kāma) divorced from dharma becomes morally perverse: rejoicing in the destruction of one’s own relatives is presented as the ‘fulfillment’ of a wish, implicitly condemning such intent as adharma and exposing the ethical blindness produced by ambition and hostility.
In the context of the lac-house (lakṣagṛha) plot, a message is proposed to be sent to Dhṛtarāṣṭra stating—ironically and accusatorily—that his ‘greatest desire’ has been achieved because the Pāṇḍavas have supposedly been burned. The statement reflects the belief (or feigned report) that the plot succeeded.