Shloka 3
आयोधनदर्शनम्
Viewing the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra
वरदानेन कृष्णस्य महर्षे: पुण्यकर्मण: । दिव्यज्ञानबलोपेता विविध पर्यदेवयत्,पुण्यात्मा महर्षि व्यासके वरदानसे वे दिव्य ज्ञान-बलसे सम्पन्न हो गयी थीं; अतः रणभूमिका दृश्य देखकर अनेक प्रकारसे विलाप करने लगीं
varadānena kṛṣṇasya maharṣeḥ puṇyakarmaṇaḥ | divyajñānabalopetā vividhā paryadevayat ||
Vaiśampāyana said: By the boon of the righteous sage Kṛṣṇa (Vyāsa), she became endowed with divine knowledge and strength; and on beholding the scene of the battlefield, she began to lament in many different ways. The verse underscores how extraordinary insight does not cancel grief—rather, it makes the moral weight of destruction more vividly felt.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when one is granted divine knowledge and power, the ethical reality of mass suffering remains; heightened insight can deepen compassion and intensify grief rather than erase it.
After receiving a boon from the sage Vyāsa, the woman (contextually, a principal mourner in Strīparvan) gains divine perception and strength; seeing the battlefield’s devastation, she breaks into varied lamentation.