Shloka 3

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच सा तेन च समाधूता दुःखेन च तपस्विनी । पतिता विललापेदं सभायामतथोचिता,वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय! दुशासनके बार-बार खींचनेसे तपस्विनी द्रौपदी पृथ्वीपर गिर पड़ी और उस सभामें अत्यन्त दु:खित हो विलाप करने लगी। वह जिस दुरवस्थामें पड़ी थी, उसके योग्य कदापि न थी

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca sā tena ca samādhūtā duḥkhena ca tapasvinī | patitā vilalāpedam sabhāyām atathocitā ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。「ジャナメージャヤよ。彼に幾度も引きずられ、苦行者のごとき心を持つドラウパディーは悲嘆に圧されて地に倒れた。王の सभाにおいて、そのような姿は彼女にまことに不相応であったが、彼女は胸裂ける嘆きをあげ始めた。」

Word by Word

वैशम्पायनःVaiśampāyana

उवाचsaid

साshe

तेनby him/thereby

चand

समाधूताshaken/dragged about

दुःखेनwith sorrow

चand

तपस्विनीthe ascetic woman (Draupadī)

पतिताfallen

विललापlamented

इदम्this (speech/utterance)

सभायाम्in the assembly hall

अथthen

उचिताfit/appropriate

नnot

तथाthus/so; in that manner

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Janamejaya

Draupadī

Duḥśāsana

sabhā (royal assembly)

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?

The verse highlights how adharma spreads when power is abused and a public institution (the sabhā) fails to protect the vulnerable. It implicitly condemns the court’s silence and frames Draupadī’s humiliation as an ethical rupture demanding accountability.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Kuru assembly, Draupadī is forcibly dragged by Duḥśāsana; overcome with grief, she falls and laments. The narrator stresses that such degradation is wholly unworthy of her, intensifying the moral gravity of the scene.