Shloka 17

Devanagari script

पुनर्दीव्याम भद्रं ते वनवासाय पाण्डवै: । एवमेतान्‌ वशे कर्तु शक्ष्याम: पुरुषर्षभ

Transliteration

punar dīvyāma bhadraṁ te vanavāsāya pāṇḍavaiḥ | evam etān vaśe kartuṁ śakṣyāmaḥ puruṣarṣabha ||

Translation

ドゥルヨーダナは言った。「汝に吉祥あれ。パーンダヴァらともう一度賭博をしよう。賭け金は彼らの森への追放（ヴァナヴァーサ）だ。こうしてこそ、男の中の雄牛よ、我らは彼らを我らの支配下に置ける。」

Word by Word

• पुनः: again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः

• दीव्याम: let us two play (gamble)
• दीव्याम: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: दिव् (दीव्यति)
• Form: Vidhi-lin (optative), 1, Dual, Parasmaipada

• भद्रम्: good; welfare
• Type: Noun
• Root: भद्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Dative, Singular

• वनवासाय: for exile to the forest
• वनवासाय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनवास
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• पाण्डवैः: with the Pāṇḍavas
• पाण्डवैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• एवम्: thus; in this way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• एतान्: these (men)
• एतान्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• वशे: under control; in subjection
• वशे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• कर्तुम्: to make; to bring (into)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Tumun (infinitive)

• शक्ष्यामः: we shall be able
• शक्ष्यामः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: शक्
• Form: Lṛṭ (simple future), 1, Plural, Parasmaipada

• पुरुषर्षभ: O bull among men
• पुरुषर्षभ: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरुष-ऋषभ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

दुर्योधन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Duryodhana
• Pāṇḍavas
• dice game (dyūta)
• forest exile (vanavāsa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how courteous speech can mask unethical intent: Duryodhana frames a renewed dice game as a strategic tool to subjugate the Pāṇḍavas, illustrating the moral danger of using deceitful means to gain power.

What is happening in the narrative?

After the earlier gambling episode, Duryodhana urges that the dice game be held again, this time with the condition that the Pāṇḍavas must accept forest exile as the stake, aiming to secure their defeat and bring them under Kaurava control.