Shloka 193
कुम्भकर्णवधः — Kumbhakarṇa’s Fall and the Renewal of the Engagement
सेनां तवेमां हतसर्वयोधां विक्षोभितां द्रक्ष्यसि पाण्डुपुत्रै: । (अरे मूढ!) रत्नोंसे लदी हुई नाव जैसे समुद्रके बीचमें जाकर किसी मगरमच्छकी पीठसे टकराकर टूट जाती है, उसी प्रकार पाण्डवलोग आज तेरे समस्त सैनिकोंका संहार करके तेरी इस सारी सेनाको छिलन्न-भिन्न कर डालेंगे और तू अपनी आँखोंसे यह सब कुछ देखेगा
senāṁ tavemāṁ hata-sarva-yodhāṁ vikṣobhitāṁ drakṣyasi pāṇḍuputraiḥ |
Vaiśampāyana said: “You will behold this army of yours—its warriors all slain—thrown into utter turmoil by the sons of Pāṇḍu. Like a jewel-laden boat that, upon reaching the midst of the sea, strikes the back of a crocodile and shatters, so will the Pāṇḍavas today destroy all your soldiers, tear your entire host to pieces, and you will witness it with your own eyes.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the moral logic of consequence: an army founded on wrongful intent and sustained by adharma is destined for collapse. It frames destruction not merely as military defeat but as the inevitable outcome of ethical disorder, which the wrongdoer must finally confront directly.
Vaiśampāyana delivers a forewarning to an addressed opponent: the Pāṇḍavas will kill the warriors and throw the entire host into chaos, and the addressee will personally witness the ruin—likened (in the accompanying simile) to a richly laden boat shattering mid-ocean upon striking a crocodile.