Shloka 45
नकुल बोले--दुर्योधनके प्रियसाधनमें लगे हुए जिन धृतराष्ट्रपुत्रोने इस द्यूतसभामें द्रपदकुमारी कृष्णाको कठोर बातें सुनायी हैं, कालसे प्रेरित हो मौतके मुँहमें जानेकी इच्छा रखनेवाले उन दुराचारी बहुसंख्यक धुृतराष्ट्रकुमारोंको मैं यमलोकका अतिथि बना दूँगा ।।
nakula uvāca—duryodhanasya priyasādhane lagāḥ ye dhṛtarāṣṭraputrā asyāṃ dyūtasabhāyāṃ drupadakumārīṃ kṛṣṇāṃ kaṭhorāṇi vākyaśaḥ śrāvayām āsuḥ, kālena preritā mṛtyumukhaṃ gantum icchantaḥ te durācārā bahusaṅkhyā dhṛtarāṣṭrakumārāḥ mayā yamalokasyātithayo bhaviṣyanti. nideśād dharmarājasya draupadyāḥ padavīṃ caran nirdhṛtarāṣṭrāṃ pṛthivīṃ kartāsmi na cirād iva.
ナクラは言った。「ドゥルヨーダナを喜ばせようとして、この賭博の広間でドルパダの娘ドラウパディー（クリシュナー）に苛烈な言葉を浴びせた持国の子ら――カーラに駆り立てられ、死の口へと飛び込むことを望むあの悪しき者どもを、私はヤマの国の客としてやろう。ダルマラージャの命に従い、ドラウパディーのために歩み、私はまもなく大地から持国の子らを絶やしてみせる。」
नकुल उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames abusive speech and humiliation of the innocent as adharma that ripens into inevitable consequence (kāla). It also shows the tension between righteous restraint under Dharmarāja’s authority and the kṣatriya impulse to restore honor through just retribution.
In the gambling hall episode, Draupadī has been insulted. Nakula, speaking in the assembly, vows that the Kauravas who spoke cruelly to her—acting to please Duryodhana—will be slain and sent to Yama’s realm, and that under Yudhiṣṭhira’s command he will help make the earth free of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons.