Shloka 4
गौर्गौरिति पुरा मन्द द्रौपदीमेकवाससम् | यत् सभायां हसन्नस्मांस्तदा वदसि दुर्मते
gaur gaur iti purā manda draupadīm ekavāsasam | yat sabhāyāṁ hasann asmāṁs tadā vadasi durmate ||
Sanjaya said: “O fool—earlier, in the royal assembly, you laughed at us and taunted Draupadī when she stood there in a single garment, crying ‘cow, cow!’; it is that very cruelty and perverse mind of yours that now speaks.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Mocking the vulnerable and violating dignity in public is a grave adharma; such cruelty reveals a corrupted mind and becomes a moral cause for later downfall and suffering.
Sanjaya recalls an earlier incident in the royal assembly where Draupadī was insulted and mocked; he uses that memory to condemn the addressee’s character, linking present speech and fate to past wrongdoing.