Shloka 913
तान्यद्य जीवितं चास्य शमयन्तु शरास्तव । “दुष्टात्मा कर्णने तुम्हारे प्रति और भी जो-जो पापपूर्ण बर्ताव किये हैं, उन सबको और इसके जीवनको भी आज तुम्हारे बाण नष्ट कर दें
tāny adya jīvitaṁ cāsya śamayantu śarās tava |
Sañjaya said: “May your arrows today bring to an end both his life and those (evil deeds)—may they quell and wipe out the wicked conduct Karṇa has shown toward you, and may they also end his very life.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames battlefield killing as moral reckoning: grievous wrongdoing is imagined as something that must be ‘brought to cessation’ along with the wrongdoer’s life, highlighting the epic tension between dharma and violent retribution.
Sañjaya reports a charged moment in the Karṇa Parva where the listener is urged that the opponent’s life—and the consequences of his prior misdeeds—should be ended that very day by the listener’s arrows, intensifying the climactic war atmosphere.