Shloka 10
भीष्मशिबिरगमनम् — Duryodhana’s Visit to Bhīṣma’s Camp and the Command Appeal
स नागलोके संवृद्धो मात्रा च परिरक्षित: । पितृव्येण परित्यक्तः: पार्थद्वेषाद् दुरात्मना
sa nāgaloke saṁvṛddho mātrā ca parirakṣitaḥ | pitṛvyeṇa parityaktaḥ pārthadveṣād durātmanā ||
ಸಂಜಯನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಅವನು ನಾಗಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೇ ಬೆಳೆದು, ತಾಯಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ರೀತಿಯಿಂದಲೂ ಅವನನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿದಳು. ಆದರೆ ಪಾರ್ಥ (ಅರ್ಜುನ) ಮೇಲಿನ ದ್ವೇಷದಿಂದ ದುರಾತ್ಮನಾದ ಒಬ್ಬ ಪಿತೃವ್ಯನು ಆ ಮಗುವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸಿದನು.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how personal hatred can corrupt familial responsibility: abandoning a dependent child out of enmity toward someone else is portrayed as the act of a durātmā (evil-minded person), contrasting protection (rakṣaṇa) with adharma-driven neglect.
Sañjaya explains that a certain child was raised safely in Nāgaloka under his mother’s care, but later a paternal uncle—motivated by hostility toward Arjuna—rejected and abandoned the child.