Shloka 4

Bhīma–Draupadī Saṃvāda on Restraint, Protection, and the Kīcaka Threat

Virāṭa-parva, Adhyāya 20

Devanagari script

चक्रवत्परिवर्तन्ते हरार्थाक्ष व्यसनानि च । इति कृत्वा प्रतीक्षामि भर्तृणामुदयं पुन:,धन और व्यसन (सम्पत्ति और विपत्ति) सदा गाड़ीके पहियेकी तरह घूमा करते हैं; ऐसा विचारकर मैं पतियोंके पुनः अभ्युदयकालकी प्रतीक्षा करती हूँ

Transliteration

cakravat parivartante harārthākṣa vyasanāni ca | iti kṛtvā pratīkṣāmi bhartṝṇām udayaṁ punaḥ ||

Translation

دولت اور مصیبت—آسودگی اور ابتلا—گاڑی کے پہیے کی طرح گھومتے رہتے ہیں۔ اسی خیال سے میں اپنے شوہروں کے دوبارہ عروج کے وقت کی منتظر ہوں۔

Word by Word

चक्रवत्like a wheel

परिवर्तन्तेthey revolve/turn about

हरार्थाक्षO Harārthākṣa (proper name, vocative address)

व्यसनानिcalamities/misfortunes

चand

इतिthus

कृत्वाhaving done/considered

प्रतीक्षामिI wait/expect

भर्तृणाम्of the husbands/lords

उदयम्rise/prosperity

पुनःagain

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

bhartṝṇām (the husbands)

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 teaches that prosperity and misfortune are cyclical, like a wheel’s rotation; therefore one should endure hardship with patience and moral steadiness, trusting that conditions can change again.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Virāṭa episode, the speaker expresses a resolve to wait for the return of better times for her husbands, interpreting their present suffering as a temporary phase in the turning cycle of fortune.