Shloka 623

Devanagari script

अधर्मो हि कृतस्तीव्र: कथं स्यादफलश्रिरम्‌ । “तुम्हारे पापकर्मका फल तुम्हें शीघ्र ही प्राप्त होगा। तुमलोगोंने घोर पाप किया है। उसका फल मिलनेमें अधिक विलम्ब कैसे हो सकता है?

Transliteration

adharmo hi kṛtas tīvraḥ kathaṃ syād aphalaśriyam |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “A grievous act of adharma has indeed been committed—how could it possibly remain without its due consequence? The fruit of your sinful deed will come to you swiftly; you have done a terrible wrong, so how could there be much delay in its result?”

Word by Word

अधर्मःunrighteousness, adharma

हिindeed, for

कृतःdone, committed

तीव्रःintense, severe

कथम्how?

स्यात्could be, would be

अफलश्रिरम्fruitless, without result

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Severe adharma cannot remain consequence-free; moral causality (karma-phala) is inevitable, and grievous wrongdoing tends to ripen into results swiftly.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, underscores that a terrible unrighteous act has been committed in the war context and warns that its painful result will soon be experienced by the perpetrators.