Shloka 7
Śaineya’s Breakthrough and Reunion with Arjuna (शैनेयस्य समागमः)
न गोष्ठया नोपकारेण न सम्बन्धनिमित्तत: । नानाहूत॑ नाप्यभूतं मम सैन्यं बभूव ह,हमने किसीको भी गोष्ठीद्वारा बहकाकर, उपकार करके अथवा किसी सम्बन्धके कारण सेनामें भर्ती नहीं किया है। इनमें ऐसा भी कोई नहीं है जिसे बुलाया न गया हो अथवा जिसे बेगारमें पकड़कर लाया गया हो। मेरी सारी सेनाकी यही स्थिति है
sañjaya uvāca
na goṣṭhayā nopakāreṇa na sambandha-nimittataḥ | nānāhūtaṃ nāpy abhūtaṃ mama sainyaṃ babhūva ha ||
Sañjaya said: “Neither by coaxing through social pressure, nor by winning men over with favors, nor on account of family ties did my army come into being. Nor is there anyone among them who was not duly summoned, or who was seized and brought by compulsion. Such is the condition of my entire host.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses ethical legitimacy and accountability in wartime organization: soldiers should be properly summoned and willingly enlisted, not obtained through manipulation, patronage, nepotism, or coercive seizure.
Sañjaya, reporting events, characterizes the composition of ‘my army’ as orderly and legitimate—asserting that no one was dragged in by force or included without being formally called—thereby framing the host as properly constituted in the midst of the Drona Parva war narrative.