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Mahabharata 2.51.25

धृतराष्ट्र उवाच · dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca

नेह क्षत्तः कलहस्तप्स्यते मां; न चेद्दैवं प्रतिलोमं भविष्यत्धात्रा तु दिष्टस्य वशे किलेदं; सर्वं जगच्चेष्टति न स्वतन्त्रम्

neha kṣattaḥ kalahastapsyate māṃ; na ceddaivaṃ pratilomaṃ bhaviṣyatdhātrā tu diṣṭasya vaśe kiledaṃ; sarvaṃ jagacceṣṭati na svatantram

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Critical Edition, parva.adhyaya.shloka.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.

Mahabharata 2.51.25 · Vidya