Shloka 32
सर्वैरवध्यो राधेयो देवैरपि सवासवै: । ऋते त्वामिति मे बुद्धिस्तदद्य जहि सूतजम्,प्रयाहि शीघ्र॑ गोविन्द सूतपुत्रजिघांसया । “गोविन्द! अब मेरा रथ तैयार हो। उसमें पुनः उत्तम घोड़े जोते जायँ और मेरे उस विशाल रथमें सब प्रकारके अस्त्र-शस्त्र सजाकर रख दिये जायाँ। अअभ्वारोहियोंद्वारा सिखलाये और टहलाये गये घोड़े रथसम्बन्धी उपकरणोंसे सुसज्जित हो शीघ्र यहाँ आवें और आप सूतपुत्रके वधकी इच्छासे जल्दी ही यहाँसे प्रस्थान कीजिये” मेरा तो ऐसा विचार है कि राधापुत्र कर्ण तुम्हें छोड़कर इन्द्रसहित सम्पूर्ण देवताओंके लिये भी अवध्य है; अतः तुम आज सूतपुत्रका वध करो
saṃjaya uvāca |
sarvair avadhyo rādheyo devair api savāsavaiḥ |
ṛte tvām iti me buddhis tad adya jahi sūtajam |
prayāhi śīghraṃ govinda sūtaputra-jighāṃsayā ||
Sañjaya said: “To all others, Radheya (Karna) is invincible—even to the gods together with Indra. My conviction is that only you are the exception. Therefore, today slay the charioteer’s son. Go quickly, O Govinda, with the resolve to bring down the son of a sūta.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes that extraordinary power (Karna’s near-invulnerability) still yields to a higher convergence of duty and decisive agency: the war’s outcome depends on Kṛṣṇa’s unique capacity to enable what others cannot, raising the ethical tension between heroic ideals and the necessity of ending adharma-driven devastation.
Sañjaya reports an urgent exhortation: Karna is declared invincible to all—even the gods with Indra—except Kṛṣṇa; therefore Govinda is pressed to act swiftly with the intent to have Karna slain, framing Karna as the pivotal obstacle in the battle’s turning point.