Shloka 47
Śaineya’s Breakthrough and Reunion with Arjuna (शैनेयस्य समागमः)
संजय! भरद्वाजके पुत्र महारथी अश्वत्थामा भी पांचालोंसे दृढ़तापूर्वक वैर बाँधे हुए थे। अर्जुनने सिन्धुराज जयद्रथका वध करनेके लिये जो-जो उपाय किया, वह सब मुझसे कहो; क्योंकि तुम कथा कहनेमें कुशल हो ।। संजय उवाच आत्मापराधात् सम्भूतं व्यसनं भरतर्षभ । प्राप्प प्राकृतवद् वीर न त्वं शोचितुमरहसि,संजयने कहा--भरतश्रेष्ठ) यह सारी विपत्ति आपको अपने ही अपराधसे प्राप्त हुई है। वीर! इसे पाकर निम्न कोटिके मनुष्योंकी भाँति शोक न कीजिये
sañjaya uvāca | ātmāparādhāt sambhūtaṁ vyasanaṁ bharatarṣabha | prāpya prākṛtavad vīra na tvaṁ śocitum arhasi ||
Sanjaya said: “O bull among the Bharatas, this calamity has arisen from your own wrongdoing. Having met with it, O hero, you should not grieve like an ordinary man.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sanjaya frames suffering as the consequence of one’s own moral and strategic errors (ātmāparādha) and urges kingly steadiness: grief is unworthy when the cause lies in one’s own actions; one should face results with responsibility and composure.
In the Drona Parva dialogue, Sanjaya addresses Dhṛtarāṣṭra and interprets the unfolding disaster of the war as self-caused, admonishing him not to lament like an ordinary person but to recognize accountability for the chain of events.