Shloka 143
रणभूमिवर्णनम् — Devāsuropama-yuddha and the ‘River’ Metaphor of the Battlefield
भीमेन च महाबाहूु: पुत्रो दुर्योधनो मम । संजय! रणभूमिमें राजा शल्य धर्मराजके द्वारा कैसे मारे गये तथा भीमसेनने मेरे महाबाहु पुत्र दुर्योधनका वध कैसे किया?
bhīmena ca mahābāhuḥ putro duryodhano mama | sañjaya! raṇabhūmau rājā śalyaḥ dharmarājena kathaṁ hataḥ, tathā bhīmasenena mama mahābāhu-putrasya duryodhanasya vadhaḥ kathaṁ kṛtaḥ?
संजय! रणभूमि में राजा शल्य धर्मराज (युधिष्ठिर) के द्वारा कैसे मारे गए? तथा भीमसेन ने मेरे महाबाहु पुत्र दुर्योधन का वध कैसे किया?
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the climactic outcomes of the war as moral and karmic consequences: even the greatest warriors fall when adharma ripens into defeat, and the narrator’s question highlights the ethical weight of how victory and death occur in a dharma-yuddha.
Sanjaya introduces (or relays) the king’s urgent inquiry about two decisive events: the manner of Shalya’s death at Yudhishthira’s hands and the manner of Duryodhana’s death at Bhima’s hands—key turning points near the war’s end.