Shloka 11
वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं-जनमेजय! यह सुनकर छल-कपटका आश्रय लेनेवाले शकुनिने युधिष्ठिरसे निश्चयपूर्वक कहा--“लो, यह भी मैंने जीता”
vaiśampāyana uvāca—janamejaya! etac chrutvā chala-kapaṭam āśritya śakunir yudhiṣṭhiraṃ niścayapūrvakaṃ provāca—“lo, idam api mayā jitam.”
وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—اے جنمیجَے! یہ سن کر چھل و فریب کا سہارا لینے والے شکُنی نے پورے یقین کے ساتھ یُدھِشٹھِر سے کہا—“لو، یہ بھی میں ہی جیت گیا۔”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how adharma operates through calculated deceit: Śakuni’s confidence in ‘winning’ underscores the ethical danger of gambling and the corrosive power of trickery when a righteous person is drawn into an unrighteous game.
In the dice-match setting, after a preceding stake is lost, Śakuni—resorting to fraud—declares to Yudhiṣṭhira that he has won yet another stake, intensifying Yudhiṣṭhira’s downfall within the rigged contest.