Shloka 47
एतस्मात् कारणाद् घोरो वर्तते स्वजनक्षय: । दैवाद् वा पुरुषव्याप्र तव चापनयान्नूप,पुरुषसिंह! नरेश्वर! इस कारणसे अथवा दैवकी प्रेरणासे या आपके ही अन्यायसे होनेवाले इस युद्धमें स्वजनोंका घोर संहार हो रहा है
etasmāt kāraṇād ghoro vartate svajanakṣayaḥ | daivād vā puruṣavyāghra tava cāpanayān nṛpa puruṣasiṁha nareśvara |
Sañjaya said: “For this very reason, a dreadful destruction of one’s own kinsmen is taking place—whether by fate’s compulsion, O tiger among men, or through your own wrongful course, O king, O lion among men, O lord of men.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the catastrophe of war as arising either from daiva (fate) or from human apānaya (wrongful conduct), pressing the ethical point that rulers cannot evade responsibility by appealing to destiny when their own deviation from dharma contributes to mass harm.
Sañjaya reports to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra that a horrific slaughter of their own relatives is unfolding in the war, and he pointedly suggests two possible causes—fate’s drive or the king’s own unjust course—thereby intensifying Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s moral accountability for the conflict.