Shloka 14
भीष्मस्य सेनापत्यप्रतिज्ञा तथा रथसंख्यावर्णनम् | Bhishma Accepts Command and Enumerates Kaurava Strength
श्वोभूते कत्थनावाक्यं विज्ञास्यति सुयोधन: । आचितं शरजालेन मया दृष्टवा पितामहम्
sañjaya uvāca | śvobhūte katthanāvākyaṃ vijñāsyati suyodhanaḥ | ācitaṃ śarajālena mayā dṛṣṭvā pitāmaham |
Sañjaya said: “Tomorrow Suyodhana will come to understand the consequence of his boastful words, when he sees the grandsire covered over with the net of arrows shot by me.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Boastful speech (katthanā) invites a reckoning: words of pride are tested by outcomes. The verse underscores ethical restraint in speech and the inevitability of consequences in a dharmic conflict.
Sanjaya foretells that Duryodhana will realize the result of his bravado when he sees Bhīṣma, the grandsire, overwhelmed by a dense shower of arrows shot by Sanjaya—an image of impending battlefield reality replacing arrogant confidence.