Shloka 29
इस समय मैं जो कुछ करना चाहता हूँ, उसीको पूर्ण करनेके उद्देश्यसे उतावला हो रहा हूँ। इतनी उतावलीमें रहते हुए मुझे नींद कहाँ और सुख कहाँ? ।। न स जात: पुमॉल्लोके कश्चिन्न स भविष्यति । यो मे व्यावर्तयेदेतां वधे तेषां कृतां मतिम्,इस संसारमें ऐसा कोई पुरुष न तो पैदा हुआ है और न होगा ही, जो उन पांचालोंके वधके लिये किये गये मेरे इस दृढ़ निश्चयको पलट दे
kṛpa uvāca | idānīṃ yad ahaṃ kartum icchāmi tad eva paripūrṇīkartuṃ kṛte utkaṇṭhito bhavāmi | etādṛśyāṃ utkaṇṭhāyāṃ mama nidrā kutaḥ sukhaṃ ca kutaḥ || na sa jātaḥ pumān loke kaścin na sa bhaviṣyati | yo me vyāvartayed etāṃ vadhe teṣāṃ kṛtāṃ matim ||
Kṛpa said: “At this moment I am driven by urgency to bring to completion what I intend to do. In such restless haste, where could sleep be for me, and where could comfort be? No man has been born in this world, nor will any be born, who could turn me back from this firm resolve I have formed—to slay them.”
कृप उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how overpowering anger and fixation can eclipse basic human goods like sleep and peace, and how a hardened resolve toward violence becomes resistant to counsel—an ethical warning about the momentum of vengeance in war.
In the Sauptika episode, Kṛpa speaks amid the night-time aftermath of the great war, expressing intense urgency and declaring that no one can dissuade him from his decision to kill the Pañcālas.