Shloka 10
Gāndhārī’s Lament and the Identification of Duḥśāsana (स्त्रीपर्व, अध्याय १८)
अन्यां चापह्तं कायाच्चारुकुण्डलमुन्नसम् | स्वस्थ बन्धो: शिर: कृष्ण गृहीत्वा पश्य तिष्ठतीम्,श्रीकृष्ण! देखो, वह दूसरी स्त्री किसी आत्मीय जनके मनोहर कुण्डलोंसे सुशोभित और ऊँची नासिकावाले कटे हुए मस्तकको लेकर खड़ी है
anyāṁ cāpahṛtaṁ kāyāc cārukuṇḍalam unnasaṁ | sva-stha-bandhoḥ śiraḥ kṛṣṇa gṛhītvā paśya tiṣṭhatīm ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “And see another woman standing there, O Kṛṣṇa, holding a severed head taken from its body—adorned with lovely earrings and marked by a high, well-shaped nose—belonging to one of her own close kin. The scene lays bare the moral wreckage of war: even the bonds of family are reduced to tokens of grief, and the battlefield’s violence follows the living into their mourning.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच