Shloka 9
तथा ते न कृतं राजन पुत्रस्नेहान्नराधिप । तस्य प्राप्तं फलं विद्धि कुलान्तकरणाय यत्,“महाराज! आपको जो करना चाहिये था, वह आपने पुत्रस्नेहवश नहीं किया। अतः समझ लीजिये, उसीका यह फल प्राप्त हुआ है, जो समूचे कुलके विनाशका कारण होने जा रहा है
tathā te na kṛtaṃ rājan putrasnehān narādhipa | tasya prāptaṃ phalaṃ viddhi kulāntakaraṇāya yat ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “O King, O lord of men—what ought to have been done by you was not done, out of affection for your son. Know this: the consequence you have now met with is precisely the fruit of that omission, and it is moving toward the destruction of the entire lineage.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Personal attachment—especially a ruler’s indulgent affection toward a son—can obstruct rightful action. Neglecting necessary duty (dharma) produces inevitable consequences, potentially extending from private failure to public catastrophe, even the ruin of an entire lineage.
Vaiśampāyana addresses a king and attributes the present crisis to the king’s earlier failure to act as he should have, caused by attachment to his son. He frames the unfolding disaster as the karmic ‘fruit’ of that omission, now tending toward the destruction of the family line.