Shloka 46

Devanagari script

द्रौपद्या: केशपक्षस्य ग्रहणं च सुदारुणम्‌ इष्वस्त्राणि च संग्रामेष्वसुखानि च वेश्मनि

Transliteration

drau padyāḥ keśapakṣasya grahaṇaṃ ca sudāruṇam iṣvastrāṇi ca saṃgrāmeṣv asukhāni ca veśmani

Translation

มีทั้งการฉุดกระชากนางเทราปทีด้วยการคว้าปอยผมอย่างโหดร้ายยิ่ง ความทุกข์จากศัสตราในสนามรบ และความระทมที่ต้องทนแม้ในเรือน—ทั้งหมดนี้คือผลขมที่บังเกิดขึ้นแล้ว

Word by Word

द्रौपद्याःof Draupadī

केशपक्षस्यof the braid/lock of hair

ग्रहणम्the seizing/grasping

चand

सुदारुणम्very dreadful/most cruel

इष्वस्त्राणिarrows and weapons

चand

संग्रामेषुin battles

असुखानिunpleasant/painful

चand

वेश्मनिin the house/home

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Draupadī

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?

The verse recalls emblematic acts of adharma—public humiliation and violent conflict—and frames them as sources of pervasive suffering, suggesting that moral transgression breeds misery both in war and in domestic life.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, narrating events and their moral weight, evokes Draupadī’s hair being seized (a remembered outrage) and links it with the harshness of warfare and the sorrows that follow even at home, underscoring the tragic consequences surrounding the conflict.