Shloka 27
द्रोण–सात्यकि द्वैरथम्
Droṇa and Sātyaki: The Chariot Duel
भुक्तपूर्वा स्त्रियं ये च विन्दतामघशंसिनाम् | ब्रह्मघ्नानां च ये लोका ये च गोघातिनामपि
bhuktapūrvā striyaṁ ye ca vindatām aghaśaṁsinām | brahmaghnānāṁ ca ye lokā ye ca goghātinām api
Arjuna said: “May those who commit cruel and sinful deeds meet the same fate as the gravest offenders: may they be forced to take as their lot a woman already enjoyed by another; and may they attain the worlds destined for slayers of Brahmins and for killers of cows as well.”
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames certain acts as extreme adharma and invokes the idea that perpetrators should fall into the same dreadful moral category as Brahmin-slayers and cow-killers, emphasizing that grave wrongdoing leads to correspondingly grave karmic and post-mortem consequences.
In the heat of the Drona-parvan conflict, Arjuna voices a fierce denunciation of cruel wrongdoers, expressing a wish that they suffer the harshest fates—socially (dishonour and violation of rightful relations) and spiritually (hellish realms associated with major sins).