Shloka 39
पुनर्द्यूत-समाह्वानम्
Renewed Summons to the Dice-Game and Exile Wager
इदं त्वकार्य कुरुवीरमध्ये रजस्वलां यत् परिकर्षसे माम् । न चापि वक्षित् कुरुतेअत्र कुत्सां ध्रुवं तवेदं मतमभ्युपेता:
idaṁ tv akāryaṁ kuru-vīra-madhye rajasvalāṁ yat parikarṣase mām | na cāpi vakṣyati kurute 'tra kutsāṁ dhruvaṁ tavedaṁ matam abhyupetāḥ ||
इदं त्वकार्यं कुरुवीरमध्ये रजस्वलां यत् परिकर्षसे माम् । न चापि वक्ता कुरुतेऽत्र कुत्सां ध्रुवं तवेदं मतमभ्युपेताः ॥
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse condemns public wrongdoing and highlights the moral failure of bystanders: when an outrage occurs, silence and non-condemnation in an assembly amounts to complicity and signals a collapse of dharma.
In the Kuru court, a woman (contextually Draupadī) is being forcibly dragged despite her vulnerable condition; she denounces the act as sinful and notes that no one present rebukes it, implying the entire assembly has aligned with the perpetrator’s will.