Shloka 6
Ulūpī–Citravāhinī Saṃvāda: Dhanaṃjaya-patana and Prāya-threat
“तुझ दुर्बुद्धिको धिक्कार है, तू निश्चय ही क्षत्रियधर्मसे भ्रष्ट हो गया है, क्योंकि युद्धके लिये आये हुए मेरा स्वागत-सत्कार तू सामनीतिसे कर रहा है ।।
tujha durbuddhiko dhikkāra hai, tvaṁ niścaya hī kṣatriyadharmase bhraṣṭa ho gayā hai, kyoṅki yuddhake liye āe hue merā svāgata-satkāra tū sāmānītise kar rahā hai. na tvayā puruṣārtho hi kaścid astīha jīvatā | yas tvam strīvad yathāprāptaṁ māṁ sāmnā pratyagṛhṇathāḥ ||
“可耻你这乖谬之智！你确已背离刹帝利之法：我为战而来，你却想以怀柔之策来迎受并笼络我。实则你活在世上，却从未有过半分男子的奋发；所以你像女子一般，想用平和的劝说来收取我这按本来面目而来（为交战）的人。”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts kṣatriya-dharma (martial honor and readiness to meet a challenger in battle) with sāma-nīti (conciliation). It criticizes using soft diplomacy toward an opponent who has come explicitly for combat, framing it as a lapse from the warrior’s ethical role and as a failure of puruṣārtha (courageous exertion).
A speaker harshly rebukes a kṣatriya for attempting to welcome and pacify an arriving adversary through conciliation rather than responding in the expected martial manner. The opponent is described as having come ‘for battle,’ and the addressee is accused of abandoning the warrior code by trying to ‘take’ him through peaceful persuasion.