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 ||
किंतु समय के फेर से उसी मनुष्य की वही-वही बुद्धि कभी-कभी विपरीत हो जाती है और परस्पर विरोध में पड़कर स्वयं ही विफल हो जाती है।
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.