Shloka 223

Devanagari script

गुरो्गुरुं च भूयो5पि क्षिपन्नैव हि लज्जसे । दुराचारी पांचाल! तू मेरे आगे मेरे ही गुरु तथा मेरे गुरुके भी गुरुपर बारंबार आक्षेप कर रहा है, तो भी तुझे लज्जा नहीं आती

Transliteration

guroḥ guruṁ ca bhūyo 'pi kṣipann eva hi lajjase | durācārī pāñcāla! tvaṁ me 'gre me eva guruṁ tathā me guroḥ api guruṁ prati bāraṁbāram ākṣepaṁ karosi, tato 'pi te lajjā na āyāti |

Translation

サञ्जयは言った。「汝は我が前で、我が師に、さらには我が師の師にまで、幾度となく罵詈を投げつけているのに、なお恥を知らぬのか。悪行のパーンチャーラよ！この瞬間、汝の言葉が示すのは勇ではなく道義の崩壊だ。長老と師を侮り、それを公然と口にすることは、戦のさなかといえども重い不作法である。」

Word by Word

गुरोःof (my/your) teacher

गुरुम्the teacher (guru)

चand

भूयःagain, repeatedly

अपिalso, even

क्षिपन्throwing abuse at, reviling

एवindeed, just

हिfor, indeed

लज्जसेyou are ashamed

दुराचारीevil-doer, of bad conduct

पाञ्चालO Panchala (descendant/king of Panchala)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Pañcāla (addressed person)

guru (the speaker’s teacher)

guru-guru (teacher’s teacher)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even in the heat of conflict, dharma restrains speech: repeatedly insulting one’s elders and preceptors is portrayed as a serious ethical failing, marked by the absence of shame (lajjā).

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya rebukes a person addressed as “Pañcāla,” accusing him of repeatedly censuring the speaker’s guru and the guru’s guru directly in front of him, and condemns this as shameless, immoral conduct.