Shloka 7

Devanagari script

कृष्ण उवाच उक्तवानस्मि यद्‌ वाक्यं धर्मार्थसहितं हितम्‌ । नतु ततन्निकृतिप्रज्ञे कौरव्ये प्रतेतिष्ठति,श्रीकृष्ण बोले--मैंने जो धर्म और अर्थसे युक्त हितकर बात कही है, वह छल-कपट करनेमें ही कुशल कुरुवंशी दुर्योधनके मनमें नहीं बैठती है

Transliteration

kṛṣṇa uvāca | uktavān asmi yad vākyaṃ dharmārthasahitaṃ hitam | na tu tat nikṛtiprajñe kauravye prate tiṣṭhati ||

Translation

Sinabi ni Kṛṣṇa: Nagsalita na ako ng mga salitang kapaki-pakinabang, nakaugat sa dharma at sa matalinong pamamalakad. Ngunit hindi iyon nag-uugat sa isip ng Kaurava na si Duryodhana, na ang talino’y bihasa lamang sa panlilinlang at pakana.

Word by Word

कृष्णःKrishna

उवाचsaid

उक्तवान्having spoken / (I) have said

अस्मिam

यत्which/that

वाक्यम्speech/statement

धर्मार्थसहितम्accompanied by dharma and artha

हितम्beneficial

नnot

तुbut/however

तत्that (speech/thing)

नnot

निकृतिप्रज्ञेin (one) whose intelligence is in deceit / deceit-minded

कौरव्येin the Kaurava (Duryodhana)

प्रतेतिष्ठतिtakes hold / becomes established

Speaker

कृष्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kṛṣṇa

Kaurava (Duryodhana implied)

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?

Ethically grounded counsel (dharma) aligned with practical welfare (artha) benefits everyone, but it cannot influence a mind committed to deception; moral advice requires receptivity and integrity to take root.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the peace-effort context of the Udyoga Parva, Krishna reflects that his beneficial, dharma-and-artha-based words fail to settle in the Kaurava leader’s mind—pointing to Duryodhana’s entrenched deceit and resistance to reconciliation.