Shloka 28

Devanagari script

दुर्योधन उवाच क्व सा क्रीडा गतास्माकं बाल्ये वै शिनिपुड़व

Transliteration

duryodhana uvāca kva sā krīḍā gatāsmākaṃ bālye vai śinipuṅgava

Translation

Duryodhana berkata: “Ke manakah perginya keriangan kita dahulu—permainan yang kita kongsi sejak kecil, wahai banteng di antara kaum Śini?”

Word by Word

• दुर्योधनः: Duryodhana
• दुर्योधनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दुर्योधन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Kriya
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect (Paroksha-bhuta), Third, Singular

• क्व: where?
• क्व: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: क्व

• सा: that (she/that one)
• सा: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• क्रीडा: play, sport
• क्रीडा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रीडा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• गता: gone, departed
• गता: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: Past Passive Participle (क्त), Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अस्माकम्: of us, our
• अस्माकम्: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Plural

• बाल्ये: in childhood
• बाल्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: बाल्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वै: indeed, surely
• वै: Nipata
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै

• शिनिपुंगव: O bull among the Shinis (best of the Shinis)
• शिनिपुंगव: Sambodhana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिनिपुंगव
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

दुर्योधन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Duryodhana
• Śini lineage (Śini/Yādava clan)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how war erodes earlier bonds and innocence; remembrance of shared childhood becomes an ethical mirror, exposing the tragedy of abandoning kinship-based restraint (dharma) for hostility and pride.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Drona Parva, amid the intensifying conflict, Duryodhana addresses a Śini-descended hero with an emotional appeal, asking where their childhood play has gone—an attempt to invoke past closeness against the present enmity.