Shloka 20

Devanagari script

तब महाबाहु जनार्दनने धृतराष्ट्रसे कहा--“कुरुनन्दन! आपको दो अदृश्य नेत्र प्राप्त हो जाया ।। तत्राद्भुतं महाराज धृतराष्ट्रश्न चक्षुषी । लब्धवान्‌ वासुदेवाच्च विश्वरूपदिदृक्षया,महाराज जनमेजय! वहाँ 88 बात हुई कि धुृतराष्ट्रने भी भगवान्‌ श्रीकृष्णसे उनके विश्वरूपका दर्शन करनेकी दो नेत्र प्राप्त कर लिये

Transliteration

tatrādbhutaṃ mahārāja dhṛtarāṣṭrasya cakṣuṣī | labdhavān vāsudevāc ca viśvarūpa-didṛkṣayā ||

Translation

ಅಲ್ಲಿ, ಮಹಾರಾಜ, ಒಂದು ಅದ್ಭುತ ಘಟನೆ ಸಂಭವಿಸಿತು—ವಿಶ್ವರൂപವನ್ನು ನೋಡಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಆಸೆಯಿಂದ ಧೃತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರನು ವಾಸುದೇವನಿಂದ ಎರಡು (ಅಲೌಕಿಕ) ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು।

Word by Word

तत्रthere

अद्भुतम्a wonder, marvelous (thing)

महाराजO great king

धृतराष्ट्रःDhṛtarāṣṭra

चand

चक्षुषीtwo eyes

लब्धवान्obtained, got

वासुदेवात्from Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)

चand

विश्व-रूप-दिदृक्षयाby/with the desire to see the universal form

Speaker

धृतराष्ट उवाच

Characters & Entities

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)

Janamejaya

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?

Extraordinary perception (divine vision) is portrayed as a gift of grace enabling insight into a higher reality (viśvarūpa). The ethical implication is that receiving greater vision should lead to greater responsibility and right judgment, not merely amazement.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the course of the Udyoga Parva narration, it is stated that Dhṛtarāṣṭra receives two supernatural eyes from Vāsudeva so that he may behold the Lord’s universal form (viśvarūpa).