Shloka 243
अद्य दुर्योधनो दीप्तां श्रियं प्राणांश्व॒ मोक्ष्यति । 'श्रीकृष्णण आज हमलोगोंका सारा कार्य समाप्त हो जायगा। आज दुर्योधन अपनी उज्ज्वल राजलक्ष्मी और प्राणोंको भी खो बैठेगा
adya duryodhano dīptāṁ śriyaṁ prāṇāṁś ca mokṣyati |
Sañjaya said: “Today Duryodhana will forfeit his blazing royal fortune—and even his very life.” In the moral arc of the war, this line marks the ripening of adharma’s consequences: sovereignty sought through injustice and obstinacy culminates in the loss of both kingship and breath.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Power and prosperity gained or defended through adharma are unstable; when ethical order is violated, the same ‘royal splendor’ (śrī) that seems secure can vanish, and the agent of injustice ultimately pays with everything—status, support, and life.
Sañjaya, narrating the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, foretells the imminent end of Duryodhana: the Kaurava leader is about to lose both his kingship’s radiance and his life, signaling the closing of the war’s final reckoning.