Kārpaṇya-doṣa means a miserly man. Miserly man. He was conscious of the fact that he was a great hero, he was a great fighter and, at the same time, the enemies were there. So his actual duty was to fight with the enemy. They were offering fight. For a kṣatriya there are some obligations. If somebody challenges that, "I want to fight with you," a kṣatriya cannot deny. If somebody challenges, "Yes, I want to bet with you, gambling," a kṣatriya cannot deny. And for that reason, the Pāṇḍavas lost their kingdom.
The other side, his cousins, offered them that, "All right, let us come to betting." So betting, the bid was they offered the kingdom. "Now, if you, if you," I mean to say: "Defeated, if you are defeated, then you lose your kingdom." So they lost their kingdom. Then the next, next offer was that, "If you are defeated, you lose your wife." So they lost their wife. And similarly, they were put, "Now this time if you are defeated, you have to go to the forest for twelve years."
So there was a great plan behind them, and the Pāṇḍavas were defeated in so many ways, and they were harassed, embarrassed, for not less than twenty years. And now they were to fight, face to face. Now he is not prepared to fight. That means he has become miserly, means he is deviating from his duty. Now . . . so he is conscious that "Practically, I am deviating from my duty." Kārpaṇya-doṣa, "This is my miserly behavior." Doṣa. Doṣa means "It is a fault on my part. I should not have deviated from this fighting, but my sentiment does not allow me to fight with my kinsmen." So here is a perplexity.