Shloka 6

Devanagari script

संश्रवे धृतराष्ट्रस्य गान्धार्याश्चाप्यमर्षण: । स्मृत्वा दुर्योधन शत्रुं कर्णदुःशासनावपि

Transliteration

saṁśrave dhṛtarāṣṭrasya gāndhāryāś cāpy amarṣaṇaḥ | smṛtvā duryodhanaśatruṁ karṇaduḥśāsanāv api

Translation

धृतराष्ट्र व गांधारी यांची वार्ता ऐकताच जो (आतापर्यंत) अमर्षरहित होता तो अस्वस्थ झाला; आणि शत्रू दुर्योधन तसेच कर्ण व दुःशासन यांना स्मरून त्याच्या मनात पुन्हा जुने वैर जागे झाले।

Word by Word

संश्रवेin/at the report (hearing, tidings)

धृतराष्ट्रस्यof Dhṛtarāṣṭra

गान्धार्याःof Gāndhārī

चand

अपिalso/even

अमर्षणःintolerant; unable to bear (anger/grief)

स्मृत्वाhaving remembered

दुर्योधनम्Duryodhana

शत्रुम्enemy

कर्णम्Karna

दुःशासनम्Duḥśāsana

अपिalso

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Gāndhārī

Duryodhana

Karṇa

Duḥśāsana

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 verse highlights how unresolved anger and the memory of wrongdoing can resurface even after the war’s end; ethical healing requires more than victory—it requires inner restraint and reconciliation with the past.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana describes a reaction triggered by hearing about Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Gāndhārī: the listener’s emotions shift, and recollection of old enemies—Duryodhana, Karṇa, and Duḥśāsana—revives hostility tied to earlier conflicts.