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Shloka 1

अङ्गददूतवाक्यं लङ्काप्राकारभेदनं च

Angada’s Embassy and the Breach of Laṅkā’s Ramparts

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--भारत! पूर्वोक्त प्रकारसे रथपर बैठे हुए उन सब राजाओंके पास जाकर कोटिकास्थने द्रौपदीके साथ उसकी जो-जो बातें हुई थीं, वे सब कह सुनायीं,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपववके अन्तर्गत द्रौपदीहरणपर्वरें जयद्रथद्रौपदीसंवादविषयक दो सौ सरसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ ॥/ २६७ ॥। (दाक्षिणात्य अधिक पाठके ४ श्लोक मिलाकर कुल २४ श्लोक हैं) #::73:.8 #पड- (0) हि 2 7 अष्टषष्ट्यथिकद्विशततमो< ध्याय: टद्रोपदीका जयद्रथको फटकारना और जयद्रथद्वारा उसका अपहरण वैशम्पायन उवाच सरोषरागोपहतेन बल्गुना सरागनेत्रेण नतोन्नत भ्रुवा । मुखेन विस्फूर्य सुवीरराष्ट्रपं ततोडब्रवीत्‌ त॑ द्रुपदात्मजा पुन:

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca |

Saroṣa-rāgopahatena balgunā sarāga-netreṇa natonnata-bhruvā |

Mukhena visphūrya su-vīra-rāṣṭrapaṃ tato ’bravīt taṃ drupadātmajā punaḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: With her voice shaken by anger and passion, her eyes reddened, and her brows alternately lowered and raised, the daughter of Drupada—her face quivering—spoke again to that king of a land of mighty warriors. The scene frames Draupadī’s moral protest: her indignation is not mere emotion, but a forceful assertion of dharma against a ruler’s abuse of power.

Word by Word

वैशम्पायनःVaiśampāyana

उवाचsaid

सरोष-राग-उपहतेनwith (a face) struck/overcome by anger and passion

बल्गुनाwith a charming/beautiful (one)

सराग-नेत्रेणwith eyes full of passion

नत-उन्नत-भ्रुवाwith brows lowered and raised (i.e., knit and arched)

मुखेनwith (her) face/mouth

विस्फूर्यtwitching/quivering (having made it quiver)

सुवीर-राष्ट्रपम्the king of Suvīra (Jayadratha)

ततःthen

अब्रवीत्spoke/said

तंto him

द्रुपद-आत्मजाDrupada's daughter (Draupadī)

पुनःagain

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Draupadī (Drupadātmajā)

Drupada

rāṣṭrapa (king, implicitly Jayadratha in context)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A king is expected to uphold dharma; when power is used to violate another’s rights and dignity, moral speech—especially from the wronged—becomes a legitimate and necessary challenge. Draupadī’s anger functions as ethical resistance, not mere personal outrage.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Jayadratha–Draupadī exchange within the Draupadī-haraṇa episode, Draupadī—visibly agitated—speaks again to the king (contextually Jayadratha), setting up her rebuke and the escalating conflict that leads toward her abduction and its consequences.