Shloka 373
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 155 — Ghaṭotkaca-nidhana-śoka and Karṇa-śakti-vyaya
Kṛṣṇa’s strategic reassurance
हा हतो$सीति राजानमुक्त्वामुज्चद् युधिष्ठिर: । आर्य! तदनन्तर राजा युधिष्ठिरने आपके पुत्र राजा दुर्योधनपर सूर्यकिरणोंके समान तेजस्वी, अत्यन्त भयंकर तथा अनिवार्य बाण यह कहकर चलाया कि “हाय! तुम मारे गये”
sañjaya uvāca | hā hato'sīti rājānam uktvā muñcad yudhiṣṭhiraḥ |
قال سانجيا: بعدما خاطب الملك صارخًا: «وا أسفاه! لقد قُتلتَ!»، أطلق يودهيشثيرا سهامه. وفي توتر المعركة الأخلاقي، غدت تلك الكلمة إعلانًا حاسمًا مهيبًا يراد به كسر عزيمة الخصم، كما تُظهر كيف تصير الكلمة والسلاح معًا أداتين للنصر في الحرب.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even in a dharma-governed life, the battlefield forces harsh choices: speech can be used as a weapon to unsettle an enemy, revealing the moral strain between truthfulness, compassion, and kṣatriya-duty in war.
Sañjaya narrates that Yudhiṣṭhira, after crying out to the opposing king “Alas, you are slain!”, proceeds to shoot—indicating an intense exchange where proclamation and arrow-release occur together as part of combat.