Shloka 85
प्रविशारालपक्ष्माक्षि न सन्ति पतयस्तव । न पाण्डवा: प्रभवन्ति तव कृष्णे कथठचन
praviśārālapakṣmākṣi na santi patayas tava | na pāṇḍavāḥ prabhavanti tava kṛṣṇe kathaṃcana ||
Sañjaya said: “O lady with long eyelashes, do not enter (this place/this course of action). Your protectors are no longer here; and the Pāṇḍavas, O Kṛṣṇā, have no power to help you in any way.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the fragility of worldly protection in times of catastrophe: when one’s protectors are gone, even powerful allies may be unable to intervene. It highlights the ethical and emotional reality of helplessness amid war’s devastation.
Sañjaya addresses Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī) with a tender epithet and urges her not to proceed, stating that her protectors are absent and that the Pāṇḍavas are not in a position to help her—reflecting a moment of crisis and vulnerability within the war narrative.