Shloka 47

Virāṭa-parva Adhyāya 21 — Kīcaka’s clandestine approach and Bhīma’s covert intervention (नर्तनागारे कीचकवध-प्रसङ्गः)

Devanagari script

यो निमित्तमनर्थानां बहूनां मम भारत । त॑ चेज्जीवन्तमादित्य: प्रातरभ्युदयिष्यति,भारत! जो मेरे लिये बहुत-से अनर्थोंका कारण बना हुआ है, उसके जीते-जी यदि कल सूर्योदय हो जायगा, तो मैं विष घोलकर पी लूँगी; किंतु कीचकके अधीन नहीं होऊँगी। भीमसेन! कीचकके वशमें पड़नेकी अपेक्षा तुम्हारे सामने प्राण त्याग देना मेरे लिये कल्याणकारी होगा

Transliteration

yo nimittam anarthānāṁ bahūnāṁ mama bhārata | taṁ ced jīvantam ādityaḥ prātar abhyudayiṣyati ||

Translation

ビーマセーナは言った。「おおバーラタ（Bhārata）よ、もし明日、あの男——我に数多の災いをもたらす元凶——が生きたまま太陽が昇るなら、我は毒を溶かして飲み、死を選ぶ。キーチャカ（Kīcaka）の支配には決して屈しない。彼の権に落ちるくらいなら、汝の眼前で命を捨てるほうが我にはまさる。」

Word by Word

यःwho

निमित्तम्cause, occasion

अनर्थानाम्of misfortunes, calamities

बहूनाम्of many

ममof me, my

भारतO Bharata

तत्him, that one

चेत्if

जीवन्तम्living, alive

आदित्यःthe Sun

प्रातःin the morning

अभ्युदयिष्यतिwill rise

भारतO Bharata

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīmasena

Kīcaka

Āditya (the Sun)

Bhārata (Bharata lineage)

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 passage foregrounds the ethical priority of protecting dignity and resisting coercion: submission to adharma (forced domination) is portrayed as worse than death, and it calls the protector (Bhīma) to act decisively against the perpetrator (Kīcaka).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Matsya kingdom during the Pāṇḍavas’ incognito exile, Kīcaka has become the source of grave danger to Draupadī. The statement conveys that if Kīcaka remains alive until the next sunrise, she would rather die than be forced under his power—pressing Bhīma toward immediate intervention.