Shloka 12
Nakula’s Adaptive Counsel to Kṛṣṇa in the Kuru Assembly (उद्योगपर्व, अध्याय ७८)
मम चापि स वध्यो हि जगतश्नापि भारत । येन कौमारके यूय॑ सर्वे विप्रकृता: सदा
mama cāpi sa vadhyo hi jagataś cāpi bhārata | yena kaumārake yūyaṁ sarve viprakṛtāḥ sadā ||
Арджуна сказал: «Тот человек воистину должен быть убит — мною, и также ради блага всего мира, о Бхарата, ибо именно он с самого вашего детства непрестанно творил вам всем зло и причинял множество тягот.»
अर्जुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Arjuna frames punishment as a dharmic necessity: persistent, deliberate wrongdoing—especially against the innocent and over a long period—can make a wrongdoer ‘vadhya’ (liable to just killing) within the ethics of kṣatriya justice and the protection of social order.
In Udyoga Parva, as war becomes imminent, Arjuna declares that the person who has continually harmed the Pāṇḍavas since childhood is worthy of being slain—by Arjuna himself and, in effect, for the welfare of the world—signaling resolve for a righteous war against entrenched injustice.