Shloka 14
अलंबलवधः (Alaṃbala-vadhaḥ) / The Slaying of Alaṃbala and the Advance toward Karṇa
कुलान्तकरणे पापे जातमात्रे सुयोधने । नीयतां परलोकाय साध्वयं कुलपांसन:
kulāntakaraṇe pāpe jātamātre suyodhane | nīyatāṃ paralokāya sādhv ayaṃ kulapāṃsanaḥ ||
Sañjaya said: “This sinful one, born to bring ruin upon the lineage—Suyodhana—should, even at birth, have been sent to the other world. Truly, he is the disgrace and dust of his family.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames adharma as socially and spiritually destructive: a single person’s sinful disposition can threaten the continuity and honor of an entire lineage, and such wrongdoing is portrayed as warranting the severest moral judgment.
Sañjaya reports a harsh denunciation of Suyodhana (Duryodhana), calling him a lineage-ruiner and family disgrace, asserting that he ought to have been removed from life even at birth—an expression of the perceived catastrophic consequences of his actions in the war.