Shloka 69
विजयो ध्रुवमेवास्य विजयस्य महात्मन: । खाण्डवे येन हुतभुक्तोषित: सव्यसाचिना
vijayo dhruvam evāsya vijayasya mahātmanaḥ | khāṇḍave yena hutabhuktoṣitaḥ savyasācinā ||
Sañjaya said: “Victory is assured for that great-souled one who is himself ‘Victory’—the very man by whom, in the Khāṇḍava forest, Agni, the eater of oblations, was satisfied.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Past dharmic prowess and divine alignment are presented as signs of inevitable success: one who has previously acted with extraordinary valor and fulfilled a divine purpose (pleasing Agni at Khāṇḍava) is portrayed as carrying an ethical and karmic momentum that makes victory ‘certain’ in the present conflict.
Sañjaya reassures Dhṛtarāṣṭra about the outcome by pointing to Arjuna’s established greatness. He recalls the Khāṇḍava episode, where Arjuna enabled Agni to consume the forest and thus ‘satisfied’ the Fire-god, using that renowned deed as evidence that Arjuna’s victory in the current war situation is assured.