Shloka 89
Ulūka’s Provocation and Keśava’s Counter-Message (उलूकदूत्ये केशवप्रत्युत्तरम्)
“तुम जूएमें पराजित हुए और तुम्हारी स्त्री द्रौषदीको सभामें लाया गया। अपनेको पुरुष माननेवाले किसी भी मनुष्यको इन बातोंके लिये भारी अमर्ष हो सकता है ।।
sañjaya uvāca |
tvaṁ jūe parājito 'si, tava ca strī draupadī sabhāṁ nītā | ātmānaṁ puruṣaṁ manyamānasya kasyacid api manuṣyasya etāsu bāteṣu bhāryaḥ amarṣaḥ syāt ||
dvādaśaiva tu varṣāṇi vane dhiṣṇyād vivāsitaḥ | saṁvatsaraṁ virāṭasya dāsyam āsthāya coṣitaḥ ||
桑阇耶说道：你在掷骰赌局中败北，你的妻子德劳帕蒂也被带入王廷大会。凡自认男儿者，遇此种种，皆足以激起难以忍受的强烈愤懑。你又被逐离本应属于你的尊位，在林野中流放十二年；其后又有一年，你不得不在维罗吒王处为仆役而居。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage frames moral outrage (amarṣa) as a natural response to grave injustice—public humiliation of a wife and wrongful dispossession—highlighting how violations of dharma and honor become ethical grounds for resistance and, in the epic’s logic, a cause leading toward war.
Sañjaya reminds the listener of the Pāṇḍavas’ injuries: defeat in the dice-game, Draupadī’s being dragged into the court, twelve years of forest exile, and a final year living incognito in servitude under King Virāṭa—recalling accumulated wrongs that intensify the conflict.