Shloka 5

Devanagari script

वायुदेव उवाच दुर्योधनस्य कर्णस्य शकुनेश्न दुरात्मन: । दुःशासनचतुर्थानां भूमि: पास्यति शोणितम्‌,श्रीकृष्णने कहा--राजाओ! जान पड़ता है, यह पृथ्वी दुर्योधन, कर्ण, दुरात्मा शकुनि और चौथे दुःशासन--इन सबके रक्तका पान करेगी

Transliteration

vāyudeva uvāca: duryodhanasya karṇasya śakuneś ca durātmanaḥ | duḥśāsana-caturthānāṃ bhūmiḥ pāsyati śoṇitam ||

Translation

వాయుదేవుడు పలికెను—ఈ భూమి దుర్యోధనుడు, కర్ణుడు, దురాత్మ శకుని, అలాగే దుశ్శాసనుని మొదలైన నలుగురు సోదరుల రక్తాన్ని పానము చేయును।

Word by Word

वायुदेवःVayu-deva (the Wind-god)

उवाचsaid

दुर्योधनस्यof Duryodhana

कर्णस्यof Karna

शकुनेःof Shakuni

दुरात्मनःof the evil-souled (one)

दुःशासनचतुर्थानाम्of those with Duhshasana as the fourth (i.e., the four including Duhshasana)

भूमिःthe earth

पास्यतिwill drink

शोणितम्blood

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyudeva (Vāyu)

Duryodhana

Karṇa

Śakuni

Duḥśāsana

Bhūmi (Earth)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Adharma—expressed through cruelty, deceit, and the oppression of the righteous—ripens into inevitable destruction. The verse frames the coming bloodshed as a moral consequence: the perpetrators of grave wrongdoing will not escape the results of their actions.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva delivers a foreboding prediction that the earth will ‘drink’ the blood of key Kaurava-aligned figures—Duryodhana, Karṇa, Śakuni, and the group of four associated with Duḥśāsana—anticipating the catastrophic war and their deaths as the culmination of their hostile conduct.