Shloka 72

अध्याय ९ — कर्णस्य प्रहारः, योधयुग्मनियोजनम्, शैनेय-कैकेययोर्युद्धविन्यासः

Devanagari script

दुःशासनं च निहतं मन्ये शोचति पुत्रक: । जिस कर्ण और भाई दुःशासनको अपना सहायक पाकर मूर्ख एवं दुर्बुद्धि दुर्योधनने श्रीकृष्णके प्रस्तावको ठुकरा देना ही उचित समझा था, मैं समझता हूँ, आज बैलोंके समान पुष्ट कंधेवाले कर्णको गिरा हुआ तथा दुःशासनको भी मारा गया देख मेरा वह पुत्र निश्चय ही शोकमें मग्न हो गया होगा || ७०-७१ $ || हत॑ वैकर्तन श्र॒त्वा द्वैरथे सव्यसाचिना

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: Duḥśāsanaṃ ca nihataṃ manye śocati putrakaḥ.

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “And Duḥśāsana too has been slain; I think my son, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, is grieving. For Duryodhana, in folly, deemed it right to reject Kṛṣṇa’s offer of peace, relying on Karṇa and Duḥśāsana as his supports; now, seeing those very pillars fallen, sorrow must surely overwhelm the old king.”

Word by Word

दुःशासनम्Duhshasana (as object)

चand

निहतम्slain

मन्येI think / I consider

शोचतिgrieves

पुत्रकःthe son (dear son)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Duḥśāsana

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Attachment to unjust power and the rejection of righteous counsel culminate in inevitable sorrow; grief is portrayed as the moral consequence of sustaining adharma through violent allies.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana reports Duḥśāsana’s death and infers that Dhṛtarāṣṭra is now grieving, since the Kaurava side is losing its chief supports in the war.