Shloka 17

Devanagari script

धृतराष्ट उवाच विरोधी च कुमन्त्री च प्राज्ञममानी ममात्मज: । यस्यैव समतिक्रान्तो वधोपायो जयं प्रति,धृतराष्ट्रने कहा--संजय! मेरा पुत्र दुर्योधन सबका विरोधी और अपनेको ही सबसे अधिक बुद्धिमान्‌ समझनेवाला है। उसके मन्त्री भी अच्छे नहीं हैं; इसीलिये अर्जुनके वध और विजय-लाभका यह अमोघ उपाय उसके हाथसे निकल गया है

Transliteration

dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | virodhī ca kumantṛī ca prājñamānī mamātmajaḥ | yasyaiva samatikrānto vadhopāyo jayaṃ prati ||

Translation

Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: “My son is quarrelsome and oppositional, ill-advised in counsel, and vainly imagines himself wise. Because of this, the unfailing means—aimed at victory—by which Arjuna could have been slain has slipped past him.”

Word by Word

• {'dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca': 'Dhṛtarāṣṭra said', 'virodhī': 'one who opposes

• hostile by nature', 'ca': 'and', 'kumantṛī (kumantṛī/ku-mantrī)': 'having bad counsel

• (also: having bad ministers)', 'prājñamānī': 'thinking oneself wise

• self-conceited about one’s intelligence', 'mama': 'my', 'ātmajaḥ': 'son', 'yasyaiva': 'of whom indeed

• whose very', 'samatikrāntaḥ': 'overstepped

• was missed', 'vadha-upāyaḥ': 'means/strategy for killing', 'jayaṃ prati': 'towards victory

Speaker

धृतराष्ट उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sañjaya
• Duryodhana
• Arjuna