Shloka 6

Draupadī’s Rebuke of Jayadratha and Dhaumya’s Admonition (Āraṇyaka-parva, Adhyāya 252)

Devanagari script

सत्कृतस्य हि ते शोको विपरीते कथं भवेत्‌ | मा कृतं शोभनं पार्थ: शोकमालमब्य नाशय

Transliteration

satkṛtasya hi te śoko viparīte kathaṁ bhavet | mā kṛtaṁ śobhanaṁ pārthaḥ śokam ālambya nāśaya ||

Translation

เมื่อท่านได้รับการยกย่องแล้ว โศกจะบังเกิดขึ้นได้อย่างไร? หากเป็นตรงกันข้าม—หากถูกดูหมิ่น—สภาพของท่านจะเป็นเช่นไร? อย่าอาศัยความโศกทำลายความประพฤติอันงดงามที่ปารถะ โอรสแห่งกุนตี ได้แสดงไว้

Word by Word

• सत्कृतस्य: of one who has been honored / of the honored (person)
• सत्कृतस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सत्कृत (कृ + सत् उपसर्ग/उपपद)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• ते: of you/your
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• शोकः: grief
• शोकः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शोक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• विपरीते: in the opposite case/situation
• विपरीते: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विपरीत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• कथम्: how?
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्

• भवेत्: would be / could occur
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular

• मा: do not (prohibitive)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मा

• कृतम्: the deed / what has been done
• कृतम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृत (कृ)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• शोभनम्: good, noble, proper
• शोभनम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शोभन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• पार्थ: O son of Pritha (Partha)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पार्थ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• शोकम्: grief
• शोकम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शोक
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आलम्ब्य: having taken support of / resorting to
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-लम्ब्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund, -ya), Parasmaipada (usage)

• नाशय: destroy / ruin
• Type: Verb
• Root: नश्/नाशय (causative of नश्)
• Form: Imperative (Lot), 2nd, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Pārtha (a Pāṇḍava, son of Kuntī)
• Pāṇḍavas (implied by context of honour shown)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Grief should not be used as an excuse to negate or spoil what is good and proper; when one has received honour and kind treatment, the ethical response is steadiness and gratitude rather than sorrow that undermines right conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates a moment of counsel: someone who has been respectfully received by the Pāṇḍavas is being admonished not to fall into grief, and is reminded that contempt would have been far worse; therefore the recipient should not ‘destroy’ the Pāṇḍavas’ good treatment by taking refuge in sorrow.