Shloka 8
व्याधि-गुण-साम्योपदेशः | Discourse on Affliction, Guṇa-Equilibrium, and the Inner Battle
अथवा ते स्वभावो<यं येन पार्थावकृष्यसे । दृष्टवा सभागतां कृष्णामेकवस्त्रां रजस्वलाम् । मिषतां पाण्डवेयानां न तस्य स्मर्तुमिच्छसि
athavā te svabhāvo ’yaṃ yena pārthāvakṛṣyase | dṛṣṭvā sabhāgatāṃ kṛṣṇām ekavastrāṃ rajasvalām | miṣatāṃ pāṇḍaveyānāṃ na tasya smartum icchasi |
难道这就是你的本性吗，婆罗多之子帕尔塔，使你退缩？你曾亲眼看见克里希纳（德劳帕蒂）被拖入议会大厅——只披一件衣裳，且正值经期——而般度诸子在旁目睹。可如今，你竟连她当时那般境况都不愿回想吗？
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames moral responsibility as inseparable from memory: to forget or refuse to recall an injustice—especially the public humiliation of a vulnerable person—signals a failure of dharma. Vāyudeva’s rebuke implies that a kṣatriya’s integrity is tested not only in battle but in acknowledging and responding to wrongdoing witnessed in the court.
Vāyudeva addresses Pārtha (Arjuna), challenging him for shrinking back and for not wanting to remember the earlier outrage in the assembly where Draupadī was dragged in, wearing a single garment and menstruating, while the Pāṇḍavas looked on. The speech uses that remembered humiliation as a moral goad to confront complacency and restore righteous resolve.