Shloka 273
न कर्णसौबलाभ्यां च कुरवो यत् क्षयं गता: । “कौरवोंका जो संहार हुआ है, उसमें न दुर्योधनका हाथ है, न आपका। कर्ण और शकुनिने भी इसमें कुछ नहीं किया है
na karṇasaubalābhyāṃ ca kuravo yat kṣayaṃ gatāḥ |
Vaiśampāyana said: “The Kurus’ destruction did not come about through Karṇa and Śakuni; their going to ruin was not truly the work of those two.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse relativizes personal blame: even prominent figures like Karṇa and Śakuni are not presented as the ultimate cause of the Kuru catastrophe. It gestures toward a broader moral-cosmic causality—accumulated adharma, karma, and daiva—behind collective ruin.
Vaiśampāyana, narrating the aftermath context of the Kuru war in the Āśramavāsika Parva, frames the Kauravas’ annihilation as not simply attributable to particular individuals (here, Karṇa and Śakuni), preparing the reader for a reflection on deeper causes and consequences.