Shloka 12

Adhyaya 32: Saṃjaya’s Return, Audience with Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Ethical Admonition

Devanagari script

यतः प्राप्त: संजय: पाण्डवेभ्यो न मे यथावन्मनस: प्रशान्तिः । सर्वेन्द्रियाण्यप्रकृतिं गतानि कि वक्ष्यतीत्येव मेडद्य प्रचिन्‍्ता

Transliteration

yataḥ prāptaḥ sañjayaḥ pāṇḍavebhyo na me yathāvan manasaḥ praśāntiḥ | sarvendriyāṇy aprakṛtiṃ gatāni kiṃ vakṣyatīty eva me’dya pracintā ||

Translation

دھرتراشٹر نے کہا— “جب سے سنجے پانڈوؤں کے پاس سے لوٹ کر آیا ہے، میرے دل کو حقیقی سکون نہیں ملا۔ میری تمام حواس بے قرار ہو گئے ہیں۔ کل وہ کیا کہے گا—بس اسی بات کی آج مجھے سخت فکر ہے۔”

Word by Word

• {'yataḥ': 'since, from the time when', 'prāptaḥ': 'returned, arrived', 'sañjayaḥ': 'Sañjaya (Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s charioteer and messenger)', 'pāṇḍavebhyaḥ': 'from the Pāṇḍavas', 'na me': 'not for me / I do not', 'yathāvat': 'properly, fully, as it should be', 'manasaḥ': 'of the mind', 'praśāntiḥ': 'calm, peace, settling of agitation', 'sarva-indriyāṇi': 'all the senses', 'aprakṛtim': 'unnatural state, loss of normal composure', 'gatāni': 'have gone, have fallen into', 'kim': 'what?', 'vakṣyati': 'he will say', 'iti eva': 'thus alone

• just this thought', 'me': 'to me / my', 'adya': 'today, now', 'pracintā': 'intense worry, pressing anxiety'}

Speaker

धृतराष्ट उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sañjaya
• Pāṇḍavas

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how attachment and fear of consequences disturb inner peace: even before hearing the message, Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s mind and senses are unsettled. Ethically, it points to the cost of unresolved wrongdoing and the anxiety that precedes unjust conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war negotiations, Sañjaya has returned from the Pāṇḍavas. Dhṛtarāṣṭra confesses that since Sañjaya’s return he cannot rest, and he is consumed by worry about what Sañjaya will report next day.