Shloka 11
द्रोणपर्व — अध्याय ८७: सात्यकेरनुयात्रा
Sātyaki’s resolve and departure to reach Arjuna
परंतु आज पुण्यहीन मैं अपने पुत्रोंके घरको उत्साहशून्य एवं आर्तनादसे गूँजता हुआ देख रहा हूँ ।। विविंशतेर्दुर्मुखस्य चित्रसेनविकर्णयो: । अन््येषां च सुतानां मे न तथा श्रूयते ध्वनि:,विविंशति, दुर्मुख, चित्रसेन, विकर्ण तथा मेरे अन्य पुत्रोंके घरोंमें अब पूर्ववत् आनन्दित ध्वनि नहीं सुनी जाती है
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca | parantu adya puṇyahīno'haṃ svaputrāṇāṃ gṛhān utsāhaśūnyān ārtanādasaṃnādān paśyāmi | viviṃśater durmukhasya citrasenavikarṇayoḥ anyeṣāṃ ca me sutānāṃ na tathā śrūyate dhvaniḥ |
কিন্তু আজি, পুণ্যহীন হৈ, মই মোৰ পুত্ৰসকলৰ গৃহসমূহক উৎসাহশূন্য আৰু আৰ্তনাদে প্ৰতিধ্বনিত হোৱা দেখিছোঁ। বিবিংশতি, দুৰ্মুখ, চিত্ৰসেন, বিকৰ্ণ আৰু মোৰ আন পুত্ৰসকলৰ বাসভৱনত আগৰ দৰে আনন্দধ্বনি এতিয়া আৰু শুনা নাযায়।
धृतराष्ट उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the ethical and karmic cost of adharma-driven conflict: when a ruler’s attachment and partiality enable wrongdoing, the apparent prosperity of a lineage collapses into sorrow, and even the ‘sound’ of a household changes from celebration to lamentation.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra reflects on the war’s devastation. He notes that the homes of his sons—naming Viviṃśati, Durmukha, Citraseṇa, and Vikarṇa among others—no longer resound with festive joy but with cries of anguish, implying heavy losses and a turning of fortune against the Kauravas.