Shloka 59
तदिदं समनुप्राप्तं व्यसनं सुमहात्ययम् । जिससे आपके पुत्रोंने विजयकी आशा लगा रखी थी, जो वैरका मुख बना हुआ था, उससे पाण्डुपुत्र अर्जुन पार हो गये। महाराज! पहले आपने हितैषी बन्धुओंके कहनेपर भी जिसकी ओर ध्यान नहीं दिया, वही यह महान् विनाशकारी संकट प्राप्त हुआ है ।। ५७-५८ ई | पुत्राणां राज्यकामानां त्वया राजन् हितैषिणा,राजन्! आपने राज्यकी कामना रखनेवाले अपने पुत्रोंक हितकी इच्छा रखते हुए सदा उन पाण्डवोंके अहित ही किये हैं; आपके उन्हीं कर्मोका यह फल प्राप्त हुआ है
tad idaṃ samanupprāptaṃ vyasanaṃ sumahātyayam | yasmād yuṣmāka-putraiḥ vijayāśā niveśitā āsīt, yo vairasya mukhaṃ babhūva, tasmāt pāṇḍuputro 'rjunaḥ pāragaḥ | mahārāja! pūrvaṃ tvayā hitaiṣibandhubhiḥ ukte 'pi yasmin na manas kṛtaṃ, sa evāyaṃ mahān vināśakaraḥ saṅkaṭaḥ prāptaḥ || putrāṇāṃ rājyakāmānāṃ tvayā rājan hitaiṣiṇā, sadā teṣāṃ pāṇḍavānām ahitam eva kṛtam; teṣāṃ karmaṇāṃ phalam idaṃ prāptam ||
Sanjaya said: This terrible and hard-to-surmount calamity has now come upon you. That very obstacle on which your sons had staked their hope of victory—indeed, the very ‘gateway’ of enmity—has been crossed by Arjuna, the son of Pandu. O King, the great, ruinous crisis you face today is precisely what you once refused to heed, even when well-wishing kinsmen spoke for your good. And, O King, though you claimed to seek the welfare of your sons who longed for the kingdom, you repeatedly acted only to harm the Pandavas; this disaster is the fruit of those deeds.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ignoring good counsel and pursuing partisan harm in the name of one’s own side leads to self-destruction; the crisis is presented as the moral ‘fruit’ (phala) of sustained unethical choices.
Sanjaya reports to Dhritarashtra that the formidable obstacle on which the Kauravas based their hope of victory has been overcome by Arjuna, and he frames the unfolding disaster as the consequence of Dhritarashtra’s earlier refusal to heed well-wishers and his repeated actions against the Pandavas.