Shloka 4

Devanagari script

विदितं भवतां सर्व धार्तराष्ट्रैयथा वयम्‌ । छद्मना हृृतराज्याश्लानयाश्व बहुशः कृता:,“मुनिवरो! धृतराष्ट्रके पुत्रोंने जिस प्रकार छल करके हमारा राज्य हर लिया और हमपर बारंबार अत्याचार किया, वह सब आपलोगोंको विदित ही है

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: viditaṃ bhavatāṃ sarvaṃ dhārtarāṣṭrair yathā vayam | chadmanā hṛtarājyāś ca anāyāś ca bahuśaḥ kṛtāḥ ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「これらはすべて、あなたがたもすでにご存じである——持国（ドリタラーシュトラ）の子らが欺きによって我らの王国を奪い、さらに幾度となく不義と圧迫を我らに加えてきたことを。」

Word by Word

विदितम्known

भवताम्of you (hon.)

सर्वम्all (this)

धार्तराष्ट्रैःby the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Kauravas)

यथाas, in the manner that

वयम्we

छद्मनाby deceit, by a ruse

हृत-राज्याःdeprived of (our) kingdom

अनयाःmisdeeds, injustices

चand

बहुशःmany times, repeatedly

कृताःdone, committed

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Dhārtarāṣṭras (Kauravas)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames the loss of rightful rule through deceit as a moral wrong (anāya), implying that political power gained by fraud violates dharma and accumulates ethical blame, especially when oppression is repeated.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker, Vaiśampāyana, states that the audience already knows the background grievance: the Dhārtarāṣṭras (Kauravas) used deception to strip ‘us’ (contextually the Pāṇḍava side) of the kingdom and committed repeated injustices thereafter.