Shloka 14
पुनर्द्यूत-समाह्वानम्
Renewed Summons to the Dice-Game and Exile Wager
प्रातिकाम्युवाच सभ्यास्त्वमी राजपुत्र्याह्दयन्ति मन्ये प्राप्त: संक्षय: कौरवाणाम् । न वै समृद्धि पालयते लघीयान् यस्त्वां सभां नेष्यति राजपुत्रि
Prātikāmy uvāca: sabhyās tvām ī rājaputry āhvayanti manye prāptaḥ saṅkṣayaḥ Kauravāṇām. Na vai samṛddhiṁ pālayate laghīyān yas tvāṁ sabhāṁ neṣyati rājaputri.
Prātikāmin disse: “Princesa, os homens da assembleia chamam para que sejas levada ao próprio salão. A meu ver, chegou agora a hora da ruína para os Kauravas. Pois aquele que desceu tão baixo a ponto de arrastar-te ao tribunal real, ó princesa, jamais poderá preservar sua prosperidade e esplendor.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Public power without restraint becomes self-destructive: when rulers and courtiers violate basic dignity and dharma—especially by humiliating the innocent—their prosperity cannot endure, and ruin follows as a moral consequence.
After the dice-game crisis, the Kaurava court orders that the princess be brought into the royal assembly. Prātikāmin conveys this summons and, seeing the shamelessness of the act, warns that such degradation signals the imminent destruction of the Kauravas.