Shloka 96

Devanagari script

उपप्रेक्षसि राधेय कक्‍व ते धर्मस्तदा गत: । '(याद है न

Transliteration

upaprekṣasi rādheya kva te dharmas tadā gataḥ |

Translation

サञ्जयは語った。「ラーダーの子（カルナ）よ、今はおまえが吟味し裁くというのか——だがその時、おまえのダルマはどこへ行っていた。ドラウパディに向かい、残酷な確信をもって『クリシュナーよ、パーンダヴァらは滅び、永く地獄に堕ちた。ゆえに他の夫を選べ』と言い放ち、間近から恥もなく執拗に見据えていた時、おまえの義はどこにあったのだ。」

Word by Word

• उपप्रेक्षसि: you look at / you gaze upon
• उपप्रेक्षसि: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: उप-प्रेक्ष्
• Form: Lat (Present), 2, Singular, Parasmaipada

• राधेय: O Radheya (son of Radha; Karna)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राधेय
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• क्व: where?
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: क्व

• ते: of you / your
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• धर्मः: dharma, righteousness
• धर्मः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्म
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तदा: then, at that time
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• गतः: gone
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम् (गत)
• Form: Past active participle (क्त), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Karṇa (Rādheya)
• Draupadī (Kṛṣṇā)
• Pāṇḍavas
• Naraka (hell)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Moral scrutiny is hollow without self-accountability: one who questions dharma in others must face one’s own past violations—especially cruelty in speech and the humiliation of the vulnerable.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya rebukes Karṇa by recalling his earlier harsh words to Draupadī, contrasting Karṇa’s present posture of judgment with his prior lapse of dharma during her humiliation.