Shloka 48
Duryodhana-vadha-pratikriyā: Harṣa, Nindā, and Kṛṣṇa’s Nīti-vyākhyā (Śalya-parva 60)
दिष्टया गतस्त्वमानृण्यं मातु:ः कोपस्य चोभयो: । दिष्ट्या जयति दुर्धर्ष दिष्टया शत्रुर्निपातित:,सौभाग्यसे तुम माता तथा क्रोध दोनोंके ऋणसे उऋण हो गये। दुर्धर्ष वीर! भाग्यवश तुम विजयी हुए और सौभाग्यसे ही तुमने अपने शत्रुको मार गिराया
diṣṭyā gatastvam ānṛṇyaṁ mātuḥ kopasya cobhayoḥ | diṣṭyā jayati durdharṣa diṣṭyā śatrur nipātitaḥ ||
युधिष्ठिर बोले—सौभाग्य से तुम माता और उसके क्रोध—दोनों के ऋण से उऋण हो गए। हे दुर्धर्ष वीर! भाग्य से तुम विजयी हुए और सौभाग्य से ही तुम्हारे शत्रु का पतन हुआ।
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames victory not merely as personal prowess but as a providential outcome, while also emphasizing moral accounting: one should become ānṛṇya—free from obligations—especially toward one’s mother, whose blessing (and even whose anger) creates a binding ethical debt.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a formidable warrior, congratulating him on success in battle and on having discharged a twofold burden connected with his mother—her claim upon him and her wrath—while attributing both victory and the enemy’s fall to diṣṭi (fortune/providence).