Shloka 25
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 45: Saubhadra–Lakṣmaṇa-saṃyoga and Kaurava Counter-Encirclement
प्राणा: प्राणभृतां संख्ये प्रेषितानि शितै: शरै: । राजन प्रापुरमुं लोक॑ शरीराण्यवनिं ययु:,राजन! उस युद्धस्थलमें उसके पैने बाणोंसे प्रेरित हुए प्राणधारियोंके शरीर तो पृथ्वीपर गिर पड़े, परंतु प्राण परलोकमें जा पहुँचे
sañjaya uvāca |
prāṇāḥ prāṇabhṛtāṃ saṅkhye preṣitāni śitaiḥ śaraiḥ |
rājan prāpur amuṃ lokaṃ śarīrāṇy avanīṃ yayuḥ ||
サञ्जयは語った。王よ、その戦いにおいて、生ある戦士たちの命の息は――彼の鋭い矢に追い立てられて――彼岸へと至り、その身は大地に倒れ伏した。かくして戦は、魂と肉体の凄惨な分離をあらわにする。朽つる器はここに崩れ、しかし生の原理は彼方へ去る。正邪いずれの争いであれ、暴力の道義的重みと死の必然を聴く者に思い起こさせるのである。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the separation between the perishable body (śarīra) and the departing life-breath (prāṇa) at death, highlighting the inevitability of mortality and the grave ethical burden carried by acts of killing in war.
Sañjaya reports to the king that, struck by keen arrows in the battlefield, warriors’ bodies fell to the ground while their lives departed to the other world—an image of the battlefield’s lethal finality.