Shloka 123

Devanagari script

यत्‌ कर्म कलुषं कृत्वा शलाघसे जनसंसदि । 'तू पापकर्म करके जनसमाजमें जो इस तरह अपनी बड़ाई कर रहा है, इसके कारण तू कुन्तीके सभी पुत्रों तथा अन्धक और वृष्णिवंशके याददवोंद्वारा निन्दाके योग्य हो गया है

Transliteration

yat karma kaluṣaṁ kṛtvā śalāghase janasansadi

Translation

Sañjaya said: Having committed a tainted deed, you now boast of it in the assembly of people; by this very cause you have become worthy of censure by all the sons of Kuntī, and by the Andhakas and the Vṛṣṇis (the Yādavas).

Word by Word

यत्which/that (deed)

कर्मdeed, act

कलुषम्impure, sinful

कृत्वाhaving done

शलाघसेyou boast, you praise yourself

जनसंसदिin the assembly of people

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

public assembly (janasansad)

sons of Kuntī (Pāṇḍavas)

Andhakas

Vṛṣṇis

Yādavas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A morally stained act becomes worse when one boasts of it publicly; true dharma requires remorse and restraint, and society (and righteous clans) rightly condemns self-glorification rooted in wrongdoing.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya rebukes a warrior’s conduct: after performing a blameworthy act in the war, the person is now praising himself in public, thereby earning the reproach of the Pāṇḍavas and the Yādava-related clans (Andhakas and Vṛṣṇis).