Shloka 30
उद्योगपर्व — अध्याय ८१: कृष्णस्य दूतप्रयाणम्
Udyoga Parva, Chapter 81: Krishna Sets Out as Envoy
नन्वहं कृष्ण भीष्मस्य धृतराष्ट्रस्य चो भयो: । सस््नुषा भवामि धर्मेण साहं दासीकृता बलात्,श्रीकृष्ण! मैं धर्मतः भीष्म और धृतराष्ट्र दोनोंकी पुत्रवधू हूँ, तो भी उनके सामने ही मुझे बलपूर्वक दासी बनाया गया
nanv ahaṃ kṛṣṇa bhīṣmasya dhṛtarāṣṭrasya ca ubhayoḥ | snuṣā bhavāmi dharmeṇa sāhaṃ dāsīkṛtā balāt, śrīkṛṣṇa |
ಶ್ರೀಕೃಷ್ಣಾ! ಧರ್ಮಪ್ರಕಾರ ನಾನು ಭೀಷ್ಮನಿಗೂ ಧೃತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರನಿಗೂ ಇಬ್ಬರಿಗೂ ಸೊಸೆಯಲ್ಲವೇ? ಆದರೂ ಅವರ ಸಮ್ಮುಖದಲ್ಲೇ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬಲವಂತವಾಗಿ ದಾಸಿಯನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿದರು.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights a dharmic contradiction: a woman who is legally and morally part of the royal family (a protected daughter-in-law) is nevertheless subjected to coercion and humiliation. It underscores that social rank and formal relationships are meaningless if elders and rulers fail to uphold dharma in practice.
A woman addresses Kṛṣṇa, lamenting that although she is, by dharma, the daughter-in-law of Bhīṣma and Dhṛtarāṣṭra, she was still forcibly treated as a slave in their presence—an accusation of moral failure and complicity by the Kuru elders.