Shloka 7
Aśvatthāmā’s Buddhi-Doctrine and Nocturnal Incursion Resolve (अश्वत्थाम्नः बुद्धिविचारः सौप्तिकसंकल्पश्च)
तस्यैव तु मनुष्यस्य सा सा बुद्धिस्तदा तदा । कालयोगे विपर्यासं प्राप्यान्योन्यं विपद्यते,“किंतु समयके फेरसे उसी मनुष्यकी वही-वही बुद्धि विपरीत होकर परस्पर विरुद्ध हो जाती है
tasyaiva tu manuṣyasya sā sā buddhis tadā tadā | kālayoge viparyāsaṃ prāpyānyonyaṃ vipadyate ||
Mais chez ce même homme, cette même intelligence, selon les moments, sous l’emprise du temps et des circonstances, se renverse et devient contraire, tombant dans la contradiction réciproque.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even a person’s stable judgment can be overturned by the force of time and circumstance (kāla-yoga), producing viparyāsa—distorted discernment—so that one’s thoughts and decisions become internally contradictory and ethically unreliable.
Sañjaya comments on the instability of human resolve in the aftermath of catastrophic events: under the changing pressures of time, the same person’s intellect shifts and reverses, leading to conflicting impulses and actions—an observation fitting the tense, retaliatory atmosphere of the Sauptika episode.