Shloka 47
नास्ति चाप्यमरत्वं वै मनुष्यस्य कथंचन
nāsti cāpy amaratvaṃ vai manuṣyasya kathaṃcana
Sañjaya sprach: „Für einen Menschen gibt es wahrlich keine Unsterblichkeit — auf keinerlei Weise.“
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the inevitability of death for human beings. In the ethical atmosphere of the war narrative, it functions as a sobering reminder that worldly power, heroism, and victory cannot grant deathlessness; therefore one should act with dharma and clarity rather than clinging to false hopes of permanence.
Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, inserts a reflective statement about human mortality. Amid the unfolding violence and losses of the Kurukṣetra war, this line frames the events as governed by the inescapable condition of human life—death—intensifying the tragic realism of the account.