Shloka 583

धृतराष्ट्रविलापः — Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Lament and Inquiry (Śalya-parva, Adhyāya 2)

Devanagari script

एवमेव हतो द्रोण: सर्वेषामेव पश्यताम । युद्धके मुहानेपर तुमलोगोंके देखते-देखते भीष्मजी किरीटधारी अर्जुनके हाथसे मारे गये। इसी प्रकार द्रोणाचार्यका भी तुम सब लोगोंके सामने ही संहार हो गया

Transliteration

evam eva hato droṇaḥ sarveṣām eva paśyatām |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „So wurde Droṇa erschlagen – vor den Augen aller. Wie Bhīṣma im Kampf fiel, während alle zusahen, so fand auch Droṇācārya offen und für die versammelten Krieger sichtbar seine Vernichtung.“

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

एवindeed, just

हतःkilled, slain

द्रोणःDrona

सर्वेषाम्of all (people)

एवindeed, just

पश्यताम्while (they) were seeing; in the presence of onlookers

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Droṇa (Droṇācārya)

Bhīṣma

battlefield (Kurukṣetra, implied)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the public, undeniable nature of karmic consequence in war: even the greatest teachers and heroes fall, and their fall is witnessed by all—highlighting the gravity of adharma, the inevitability of death in battle, and the ethical weight borne by the community that participates and observes.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that Droṇa was slain in full view of the assembled warriors, drawing a parallel to the earlier, widely witnessed fall of Bhīṣma—emphasizing that these pivotal deaths occurred openly on the battlefield.