Shloka 493

Devanagari script

भविष्यति हते कर्णे मयि चापि जयाधिके । “माधव! आज कर्णके मारे जाने और विजयके कारण मेरी प्रतिष्ठा बढ़ जानेपर न जाने शिनिपौत्र सात्यकिको कितनी प्रसन्नता होगी?

Transliteration

bhaviṣyati hate karṇe mayi cāpi jayādhike | “mādhava! āja karṇake māre jāne aura vijayake kāraṇa merī pratiṣṭhā baṛh jānepara na jāne śinipautra sātyakiko kitanī prasannatā hogī?"

Translation

Sañjaya said: “When Karṇa is slain, and when my own standing rises because of victory—O Mādhava—who can say how greatly Śiniputra Sātyaki will rejoice today?”

Word by Word

• भविष्यति: will be / will happen
• भविष्यति: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (simple future), 3rd, singular, परस्मैपद

• हते: when (he is) slain / upon being slain
• हते: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हत (√हन्, कृदन्त)
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

• कर्णे: in/when Karna (is slain)
• कर्णे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्ण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

• मयि: in me / as for me
• मयि: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: —, locative, singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अपि: also / even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• जयाधिके: in (me) having superiority due to victory / in (my) victory-superiority
• जयाधिके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जयाधिक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Karṇa
• Mādhava (Kṛṣṇa)
• Śiniputra Sātyaki
• Victory (jaya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how victory and the fall of a formidable opponent can inflate reputation and provoke partisan joy, pointing to the ethical tension between righteous duty in war and the human tendency toward pride and schadenfreude.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, remarks that with Karṇa’s impending/assumed death and the consequent rise in the speaker’s prestige due to victory, Sātyaki—an ally of the Pāṇḍavas—would be especially delighted.