Shloka 12
सौप्तिकपर्व — धृष्टद्युम्नसारथिवृत्तान्तः
Report of the Night Raid and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Lament
अनर्थों हुर्थसंकाशस्तथानर्थो<र्थदर्शन: । जयो5यमजयाकारो जयस्तस्मात् पराजय:
anartho hy arthasaṅkāśas tathānartho 'rthadarśanaḥ | jayo 'yam ajayākāro jayas tasmāt parājayaḥ ||
قال السُّوتا: قد يتجلى الشؤم أحياناً في هيئة الربح، وقد ينقلب ما يبدو ربحاً إلى شؤم. وكذلك فإن “نصرنا” هذا قد جاء متشحاً بصورة الهزيمة؛ لذلك صار النصر هزيمة.
सूत उवाच
Educational Q&A
Apparent success and apparent benefit can be deceptive: what seems like gain may conceal harm, and what seems like harm may reveal a deeper truth. Ethically, a victory achieved through adharma or followed by grievous consequences can ripen into defeat.
In the Sauptika Parva context—after the night massacre and its aftermath—the narrator reflects on the bitter irony that the Kauravas’ ‘victory’ has effectively turned into ruin. The line frames the unfolding events as a reversal where triumph carries the shape and outcome of defeat.