Shloka 8
स्त्रीपर्व — अध्याय १५: गान्धारी-युधिष्ठिर-संवादः
Gandhārī’s Confrontation and Consolation of Yudhiṣṭhira
तथाप्यप्रियमस्माकं पुत्रस्ते समुपाचरत् । द्रौपद्या यत् सभामध्ये सव्यमूरुमदर्शयत्,“आपके पुत्रने तो हम सब लोगोंका इससे भी बढ़कर अप्रिय किया था कि उसने भरी सभामें द्रौपदीको अपनी बाँयीं जाँच दिखायी
tathāpy apriyam asmākaṁ putras te samupācarat | draupadyā yat sabhāmadhye savyam ūrum adarśayat ||
Vaiśampāyana nói: “Dẫu vậy, con trai bà còn làm điều xúc phạm chúng ta hơn nữa: giữa hội trường đông đủ, hắn đã phô bày đùi trái của mình trước mặt Draupadī.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Public humiliation and shameless insult in a royal assembly are presented as severe adharma. Such acts violate dignity and social order, intensify hostility, and become moral causes that ripen into collective suffering.
Vaiśampāyana recalls an earlier outrage: the Kuru prince (implicitly Duryodhana) insulted Draupadī in the assembly by displaying his left thigh. The verse frames this as a particularly grievous offense remembered amid the lamentations and moral reckoning of the Strī Parva.