Shloka 36

Devanagari script

अन्वशोचत दुःखार्ता द्रौपदी च हृतात्मजाम्‌ | रुदतीमथ पाज्चालीं ददर्श पतितां भुवि

Transliteration

anvaśocat duḥkhārtā draupadī ca hṛtātmajām | rudatīm atha pāñcālīṃ dadarśa patitāṃ bhuvi

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。ドラウパディーは悲嘆に打たれ、子を奪われた女のために嘆き悲しんだ。やがて彼女は、地に倒れ伏して泣くパンチャーリーの女を見た——戦後の光景であり、正しき者でさえ耐え難い喪失に向き合い、荒廃の中で憐れみを示さねばならぬことを映していた。

Word by Word

अन्वशोचतlamented, grieved after

दुःखार्ताafflicted with sorrow

द्रौपदीDraupadi

चand

हृतात्मजाम्her whose sons were taken away (bereft of sons)

रुदतीम्weeping

अथthen

पाञ्चालीम्Panchali (Draupadi)

ददर्शsaw

पतिताम्fallen

भुविon the ground

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Draupadī (Pāñcālī)

the bereft mother (hṛtātmajā; unnamed in this verse)

earth/ground (bhū)

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 the ethical reality that war’s consequences fall heavily on the innocent; dharma in such moments is expressed not through victory but through humane recognition of suffering and compassionate response to others’ grief.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that Draupadī, overwhelmed with sorrow, laments for a woman who has lost her sons, and then sees the Pāñcālī woman lying on the ground, crying—depicting the scene of mourning in the Strī Parva after the devastation of the war.