Shloka 113

Devanagari script

सा वो दास्ये समापन्नान्‌ मोचयामास पार्षती । अमानुष्यं समापन्नान्‌ दासकर्मण्यवस्थितान्‌

Transliteration

sā vo dāsye samāpannān mocayāmāsa pārṣatī | amānuṣyaṃ samāpannān dāsakarmaṇy avasthitān |

Translation

สัญชัยกล่าวว่า “ธิดาแห่งปารษตะ (เทราปที) นั่นเองได้ปลดปล่อยพวกเจ้า ผู้ตกอยู่ในความเป็นทาส ตกต่ำถึงสภาพอันไม่สมเป็นมนุษย์ และถูกบังคับให้ยืนอยู่ในงานของทาส”

Word by Word

साshe

वःof you / for you (your)

दास्येin servitude

समापन्नान्fallen into / having come to

मोचयामासreleased / set free

पार्षतीPārṣatī (Draupadī)

अमानुष्यम्inhumanly / beyond human (state)

समापन्नान्fallen into / having come to

दासकर्मणिin slave-work / in servile duty

अवस्थितान्standing / remaining (engaged)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Pārṣatī (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 condemns the dehumanization inherent in slavery and forced servitude, and highlights the dharmic duty to restore dignity and freedom when people are unjustly reduced to a subhuman condition.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reminds the listeners that Draupadī (Pārṣatī) intervened to free certain persons who had been made to live as slaves—treated as less than human and compelled to perform menial slave-work—underscoring her role as a moral force amid the Kuru crisis.