Shloka 3
Adhyāya 48 — Duryodhana’s Account of Tribute and the Provisioned Court (सभा पर्व, अध्याय ४८)
शकुनि बोला-दुर्योधन! तुम्हें युधिष्ठिरके प्रति ईर्ष्या नहीं करनी चाहिये; क्योंकि पाण्डव सदा अपने भाग्यका ही उपभोग करते आ रहे हैं। तुमने उन्हें वशमें लानेके लिये अनेक प्रकारके उपायोंका अवलम्बन किया, परंतु उनके द्वारा तुम उन्हें अपने अधीन न कर सके ।।
ārabdhāś ca mahārāja punaḥ punaḥ arindama | vimuktāś ca naravyāghrā bhāgadheyapuraskṛtāḥ ||
Śakuni disse: “Ó Duryodhana, não te consumas de inveja contra Yudhiṣṭhira. Os Pāṇḍava têm vivido continuamente do que o destino lhes destinou. Ó rei, domador de inimigos! Embora tenhas, repetidas vezes, posto tramas em movimento contra eles, aqueles homens, como tigres, escaparam vez após vez de todo perigo, guardados e conduzidos por sua porção de sorte.”
दुर्योधन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames repeated success and survival as rooted in bhāgadheya (destined allotment), warning that envy and obsessive scheming against the righteous can be self-defeating; it also shows how appeals to “fate” can be used rhetorically to redirect a king’s emotions and strategy.
Śakuni addresses Duryodhana, urging him not to envy Yudhiṣṭhira. He notes that despite Duryodhana’s repeated machinations against the Pāṇḍavas, they have continually escaped dangers, as if guided and safeguarded by their destined fortune.