Shloka 14
यस्तेषां तदवस्थानां द्रह्ेत पुरुषोडनृजु: । व्यक्ते स नरके मज्जेदगाधे विपुले5प्लवे
yas teṣāṃ tad-avasthānāṃ drakṣet puruṣo 'nṛjuḥ | vyakte sa narake majjed agādhe vipule 'plave, prabho ||
O lord, if in that condition—when they are lying down unsuspecting—a cruel and crooked man should look upon them with intent to betray and harm them, he would surely sink into hell: a vast, deep ocean without any boat to save him.
कृप उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that treacherously harming enemies who are helpless (asleep, unarmed, unsuspecting) violates dharma and leads to severe karmic consequence, symbolized as sinking into a vast, boatless ocean of hell.
Kṛpa warns his lord that the Pañcālas are likely sleeping at night after removing armor and becoming unwary; he cautions that betraying and attacking them in that state is a grievous adharma that condemns the perpetrator to hell.