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द्रौपदी च सुभद्रा च पश्यन्त्यौ सह बन्धुभि: | “आज अवश्य ही माता कुन्ती किसी दुःखद अपशकुनकी चर्चा करती होंगी। बन्धुओंसहित द्रौपदी और सुभद्रा भी कोई असगुन देख रही होंगी ।। २३ डक स भीम त्वरया युक्तो याहि यत्र धनंजय:,“अतः भीम! तुम तुरंत ही जहाँ अर्जुन हैं, वहाँ जाओ। आज अर्जुनको देखनेके लिये मेरी सारी दिशाएँ मोहाच्छन्न-सी हो रही हैं। सात्यकिको न देख पानेके कारण भी मेरे लिये सारी दिशाओंमें अँधेरा छा गया है”
draūpadī ca subhadrā ca paśyantyau saha bandhubhiḥ |
Sañjaya said: Draupadī and Subhadrā too, together with their kinsmen, are watching—perceiving ominous signs and anxieties that foretell suffering. In the moral atmosphere of the war, the women of the Kuru household sense impending calamity, their apprehension reflecting the human cost of adharma-driven conflict.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even amid heroic warfare, the epic foregrounds the ethical reality that adharma brings collective suffering; the anxious perception of omens by Draupadī and Subhadrā highlights the moral and emotional cost borne by families, not only warriors.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Draupadī and Subhadrā, along with their relatives, are watching and sensing inauspicious signs—an atmosphere of foreboding as the battle’s outcome and the fate of loved ones (especially Arjuna and the Pāṇḍavas) hangs in uncertainty.