Shloka 37
अध्याय ९ — दुर्योधनस्य अन्त्यावस्था, विलापः, तथा सौप्तिक-प्रतिवृत्तम्
Duryodhana’s Final Condition, Lamentation, and the Night’s Report
तव प्रसादादस्माभि: समित्रै: सह बान्धवै:
tava prasādād asmābhiḥ samitraiḥ saha bāndhavaiḥ
„Durch deine Gnade konnten wir—zusammen mit unseren Freunden und Verwandten—so bestehen/so handeln.“ Sañjaya schreibt den gegenwärtigen Ausgang der Wohltat des Angesprochenen zu und betont die Abhängigkeit von fremder Stütze sowie das gemeinsame Geschick von Verbündeten und Familie nach dem Krieg.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line foregrounds gratitude and accountability: outcomes in political and wartime contexts are often framed as arising from a leader’s favor, and the speaker underscores that friends and relatives share in both benefits and consequences.
Sanjaya, narrating events, speaks to his addressee and credits him with enabling ‘us’—along with allies and kinsmen—indicating a collective situation shaped by the addressee’s support amid the Sauptika Parva’s grim wartime aftermath.