Shloka 53
एवमेष क्षयो वृत्त: सुमहाललोमहर्षण: । तव दुर्मन्त्रिते राजन् किमर्थमनुशोचसि,राजन! इस प्रकार आपकी ही कुमन्त्रणाके फलस्वरूप यह रोमांचकारी महान् जनसंहार हुआ है। अब आप किसलिये बारंबार शोक करते हैं?
evam eṣa kṣayo vṛttaḥ sumahāl lomaharṣaṇaḥ | tava durmantrite rājan kim artham anuśocasi rājan ||
Sañjaya said: “Thus has this vast and hair-raising destruction come to pass. O King, it has arisen from your own ill counsel—so why do you grieve again and again?”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses moral accountability: when calamity is the fruit of one’s own misguided counsel and choices, repeated lamentation is hollow unless it leads to recognition of fault and ethical correction.
Sañjaya reports the terrifying scale of slaughter and addresses Dhṛtarāṣṭra directly, reminding him that the catastrophe stems from his own policy and partiality, and questioning his continual grief.