Shloka 41
कि नाम तद् भवेत् कर्म येन त्वां न व्रजाम वै । दुःखं नूनं कुरुश्रेष्ठ चरिष्याम महीमिमाम्
ki nāma tad bhavet karma yena tvāṃ na vrajāma vai | duḥkhaṃ nūnaṃ kuruśreṣṭha cariṣyāma mahīm imām ||
Sañjaya said: “What deed could there be by which we should not go to you? Surely, O best of the Kurus, we shall wander over this earth in sorrow.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames suffering as the consequence of action (karma) and highlights the moral weight of deeds after catastrophic violence: when rightful support and refuge are lost, life becomes a sorrowful wandering, underscoring responsibility and the inescapability of consequences.
Sañjaya voices anxious lament to a Kuru elder/leader, asking what action could prevent them from approaching him, and predicts that they will be left to roam the earth in grief—an expression of the desolation and uncertainty in the wake of the night’s brutal events in the Sauptika Parva.