Shloka 72
Cakravyūha-saṃkalpaḥ, Saṃśaptaka-āhvānaṃ, Saubhadra-vikrīḍitam
Drona Parva, Adhyāya 32
एवमेष महारौद्र: क्षयार्थ सर्वधन्विनाम्
evameṣa mahāraudraḥ kṣayārthaṃ sarvadhanvinām
संजय बोले—इस प्रकार यह अत्यन्त भयानक आक्रमण उठ खड़ा हुआ, जो समस्त धनुर्धरों के विनाश के लिए था।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how war, once unleashed, can become indiscriminate and self-consuming—aimed not at restoring dharma but at annihilating the very community of warriors. Ethically, it warns of escalation: violence tends to expand beyond initial aims and turns into collective devastation.
Sañjaya, narrating the battlefield events, describes a phase of combat so fierce that it appears designed to bring about the destruction of all archers—signaling an intensification of slaughter and the grim momentum of the Kurukṣetra war.