Shloka 10
Śakuni–Duryodhana-saṃvāda: Dyūta-yojanā (Śakuni and Duryodhana on Planning the Dice-Game)
यस्येमे कुण्डले दिव्ये सहजे देवनिर्मिते । कवचं च महाबाहो बालार्कसदृशप्रभम्
yasyeme kuṇḍale divye sahaje devanirmite | kavacaṃ ca mahābāho bālārkasadṛśaprabham ||
यस्येमे कुण्डले दिव्ये सहजे देवनिर्मिते । कवचं च महाबाहो बालार्कसदृशप्रभम् ॥
शिशुपाल उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how visible signs of divine endowment (inborn earrings and armor) are invoked to argue for a person’s exceptional status and protection; ethically, it cautions that power and destiny should be acknowledged with discernment rather than dismissed through envy or rash condemnation.
In the Sabha assembly context, Śiśupāla is describing a warrior marked by extraordinary, birth-born divine ornaments—earrings and armor shining like the morning sun—using this as rhetorical evidence of that warrior’s greatness and god-given protection.