Shloka 31

Devanagari script

तस्या: पार्था: परिकलेशं न क्षंस्यन्ते हामर्षणा: | वृष्णयो वा महेष्वासा: पाज्चाला वा महारथा:,“कुन्तीके पुत्र अमर्षमें भरे हुए हैं। द्रौपदीको जो यहाँ इस प्रकार क्लेश दिया गया है, इसे वे कदापि सहन नहीं करेंगे। सत्यप्रतिज्ञ भगवान्‌ श्रीकृष्णसे सुरक्षित महान्‌ धनुर्धर वृष्णिवंशी अथवा महारथी पांचाल वीर भी इसे नहीं सहेंगे। अर्जुन पांचाल वीरोंसे घिरे हुए अवश्य आयेंगे

Transliteration

tasyāḥ pārthāḥ parikleśaṃ na kṣaṃsyante hāmarṣaṇāḥ | vṛṣṇayo vā maheṣvāsāḥ pāñcālā vā mahārathāḥ |

Translation

धृतराष्ट्र उवाच—पृथायाः पुत्रा हामर्षणाः तस्याः (द्रौपद्याः) परिक्लेशं न क्षंस्यन्ते। न च वृष्णयो महेष्वासाः, न वा पाञ्चाला महारथाः, इमं क्लेशं सहिष्यन्ति।

Word by Word

तस्याःof her

पार्थाःthe sons of Pṛthā (Pāṇḍavas)

परिक्लेशम्affliction, torment

नnot

क्षंस्यन्तेwill endure / will tolerate

अमर्षणाःimpatient, intolerant (of insult)

वृष्णयःthe Vṛṣṇis

वाor

महेष्वासाःgreat bowmen

पाञ्चालाःthe Pāñcālas

वाor

महारथाःgreat chariot-warriors

Speaker

धृतराष्ट उवाच

Characters & Entities

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Pārthas (sons of Kuntī / Pāṇḍavas)

Kuntī (implied by 'Pṛthā')

Draupadī (implied by 'tasyāḥ' and the narrative context)

Vṛṣṇis

Pāñcālas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Adharma committed in public—especially the humiliation of a woman under protection—creates moral outrage and destabilizes the kingdom. Dhṛtarāṣṭra recognizes that injustice has consequences: it summons the righteous anger of allies and makes conflict nearly unavoidable.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Kuru assembly after the dice-game, Draupadī is subjected to grievous humiliation. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, alarmed, anticipates that the Pāṇḍavas, along with their powerful allies—the Vṛṣṇis (connected with Kṛṣṇa) and the Pāñcālas—will not endure this outrage and will respond forcefully.