Shloka 39
कर्णपरर्वणि त्रयोचत्वारिंशदध्यायः (Karṇa-parva Adhyāya 43) — Kṛṣṇa’s Battlefield Assessment and the Reversal Around Bhīma
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yad anyo 'py uktavān mahān brāhmaṇaḥ kuru-saṁsadi | śalya! idaṁ smara dhārayasva | adhunā tvāṁ prati bhūyo 'pi kathayiṣyāmi, yāni anyena brāhmaṇena kaurava-sabhāyāṁ svayam mama uktāni || yugandhare payaḥ pītvā proṣya cāpy acyuta-sthale
Karna said: "Śalya, remember this. I shall tell you further things as well—things that another eminent Brahmin once spoke to me personally in the assembly of the Kurus. Having drunk milk on Yugandhara and having sojourned also in the place of Acyuta…"
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames Karna’s appeal to remembered testimony: he urges Śalya to retain in mind a prior authoritative statement made by a learned Brahmin in the Kuru court, implying that ethical or strategic counsel gains weight when grounded in respected, witnessed speech.
Karna addresses Śalya directly, announcing that he will recount additional remarks once spoken to him by an eminent Brahmin in the Kaurava assembly; the line then transitions into a descriptive fragment about drinking milk at Yugandhara and staying at a place connected with Acyuta, setting up the next portion of the narration.