Shloka 114
पतितैरभवत् कीर्णा मेदिनी भरतर्षभ । भरतश्रेष्ठ! अत्यन्त घायल हो पृथ्वीपर गिरकर चिल्लाते हुए मनुष्यों, घोड़ों और बड़े- बड़े हाथियोंसे वहाँकी भूमि ढँक गयी थी ।। ११३ $ ।। मानुषाणां सहस्नरेषु हतेषु पतितेषु च
mānuṣāṇāṃ sahasreṣu hateṣu patiteṣu ca
Sañjaya said: When thousands of men had been slain and had fallen, the earth was strewn with bodies—an image of war’s moral collapse, where the cost of adharma is measured not in victory but in the suffering and ruin spread across the battlefield.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the ethical weight of violence: mass killing reduces the world to a field of suffering, reminding the listener that victory achieved through adharma culminates in devastation rather than true glory.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield scene after slaughter—countless human warriors have been killed and lie fallen, leaving the ground covered with bodies.