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Shloka 7

यदा रजस्वलां कृष्णां दःशासनवशे स्थिताम्‌ | सभायां प्राहस: कर्ण क्‍्व ते धर्मस्तदा गत:,“कर्ण! भरी सभामें दुःशासनके वशमें पड़ी हुई रजस्वला द्रौपदीको लक्ष्य करके जब तुमने उपहास किया था, तब तुम्हारा धर्म कहाँ चला गया था?

yadā rajasvalāṃ kṛṣṇāṃ duḥśāsana-vaśe sthitām | sabhāyāṃ prāhasaḥ karṇa kva te dharmas tadā gataḥ ||

สัญชัยกล่าวว่า “กรรณะ เมื่อกฤษณา—เทราปที—อยู่ในระดูและตกอยู่ใต้อำนาจทุศาสน์อย่างไร้ทางสู้ในท้องพระโรง แล้วท่านกลับเยาะเย้ยเธอ ณ ขณะนั้น ธรรมะของท่านไปอยู่ที่ใด?”

यदाwhen
यदा:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयदा
रजस्वलाम्menstruating
रजस्वलाम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootरजस्वला
FormFeminine, Accusative, Singular
कृष्णाम्Krishna (Draupadi)
कृष्णाम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootकृष्णा
FormFeminine, Accusative, Singular
दुःशासन-वशेunder Duhshasana's control
दुःशासन-वशे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootदुःशासन-वश
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
स्थिताम्placed/standing, being
स्थिताम्:
Karma
TypeVerb
Rootस्था
Formक्त (past passive participle), Feminine, Accusative, Singular
सभायाम्in the assembly
सभायाम्:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootसभा
FormFeminine, Locative, Singular
प्राहसःyou laughed/mocked
प्राहसः:
Karta
TypeVerb
Rootप्रहस्
FormPerfect (Liṭ), Second, Singular, Parasmaipada
कर्णO Karna
कर्ण:
TypeNoun
Rootकर्ण
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
क्वwhere
क्व:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootक्व
तेyour
ते:
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्
FormGenitive, Singular
धर्मःdharma, righteousness
धर्मः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootधर्म
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
तदाthen
तदा:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतदा
गतःgone
गतः:
Karta
TypeVerb
Rootगम्
Formक्त (past active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

संजय उवाच

S
Sañjaya
K
Karna
D
Draupadī (Kṛṣṇā)
D
Duḥśāsana
S
Sabhā (royal assembly)

Educational Q&A

Moral authority in war or debate is undermined by past complicity in injustice. Sañjaya confronts Karna with ethical inconsistency: one cannot claim dharma while having mocked a vulnerable woman during a grave violation in the assembly.

In the Karṇa Parva, Sañjaya recalls the earlier dice-hall episode to rebuke Karna. He points to Karna’s derision of Draupadī—then under Duḥśāsana’s power in the sabhā—as evidence that Karna abandoned dharma at a decisive moment, foreshadowing the moral reckoning of the war.