Shloka 29
अध्याय १५९ — रात्रौ श्रमविरामः
Night Exhaustion and Brief Pause in Battle
अभीषाहाउुछूरसेनान् बाह्लीकान् सवसातिकान् | निकृत्य पृथिवीं राजा चक्रे शोणितकर्दमाम्,अभीषाह, सूरसेन, बाह्नीक और वसातिदेशीय योद्धाओंको नष्ट करके राजा युधिष्ठिरने इस भूतलपर रक्तकी कीच मचा दी
sañjaya uvāca | abhīṣāhā ucchūrasenān bāhlīkān savasātikān | nikṛtya pṛthivīṁ rājā cakre śoṇita-kardamām ||
Sañjaya said: Having cut down the Abhīṣāhas, the Ucchūrasenas, the Bāhlīkas, and the warriors of the Vasāti region, King Yudhiṣṭhira turned the earth into a mire of blood. The verse underscores the grim ethical cost of war: even a dharma-minded king, compelled by the necessities of battle, becomes an agent of widespread slaughter, and the battlefield itself bears witness to the collapse of ordinary moral order under martial compulsion.
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