Shloka 363
अद्य राज्ये करिष्यामि धृतराष्ट्रं जनेश्वरम् “मैं आज ही पुत्र, पौत्र, मन््त्री और सेवकोंसहित राजा धृतराष्ट्रको राज्यकी ओरसे निराश कर दूँगा
sañjaya uvāca | adya rājye kariṣyāmi dhṛtarāṣṭraṃ janeśvaram |
Sañjaya said: “Today, in the matter of the kingdom, I shall render King Dhṛtarāṣṭra—lord of men—bereft of hope.” (The utterance conveys a decisive intent to strip the blind monarch of confidence and effective sovereignty, implying political and moral collapse amid the war’s crisis.)
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line underscores how kingship without righteous grounding becomes fragile: in a dharma-crisis, authority can be reduced to mere form, and a ruler may be left hopeless when events and consequences overtake him.
In the Karṇa Parva war context, a speaker (reported by Sañjaya) declares an immediate resolve to shatter Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s confidence regarding the kingdom—signaling impending political ruin and the collapse of the Kaurava cause.