Shloka 4
गमिता: परलोकाय परमास्त्रै: किरीटिना । अहन्यहनि संक्रुद्धास्तावकानां महारथा:,किरीटधारी अर्जुनने प्रतिदिन अपने उत्तम अस्त्रोंद्वारा क्रोधमें भरे हुए आपके महारथियोंको परलोकमें पहुँचाया है
gamitāḥ paralokāya paramāstraiḥ kirīṭinā | ahany ahani saṅkruddhas tāvakānāṃ mahārathāḥ ||
Sañjaya said: “Day after day, the Kuru great chariot-warriors—your men—when inflamed with fury, were dispatched to the next world by the diademed Arjuna through his supreme weapons.” The verse underscores the grim moral weight of war: anger and pride drive combatants, while extraordinary skill and divine weaponry turn the battlefield into a relentless passage from life to death.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the destructive power of anger in war and the inevitability of death when violence escalates. It also implies the ethical gravity of wielding extraordinary power (paramāstras): prowess can decide outcomes swiftly, but it intensifies the moral burden and the tragedy of lives cut down.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Arjuna, identified as the diademed warrior (kirīṭin), is killing Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s elite chariot-fighters day after day, using his finest weapons, as the opposing warriors fight in rage.