Shloka 25
द्रोण–सात्यकि द्वैरथम्
Droṇa and Sātyaki: The Chariot Duel
ये लोका ४8४६ | ये चापि पितृघातिनाम् । गुरुदारगतानां ये पिशुनानां च ये सदा
ye lokāḥ | ye cāpi pitṛghātinām | gurudāragatānāṃ ye piśunānāṃ ca ye sadā
アルジュナは言った。「父を殺めた者に割り当てられる苦患の世界、師の妻を犯した者に落ちる世界、そして常に讒言し中傷する者の世界——（もし私がこの行いに及ぶなら、我が身もまたそのような境涯に縛られると私は見る）。」
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames certain acts—patricide, violating the teacher’s wife, and habitual slander—as paradigmatic adharma with grave karmic consequences, using them as moral benchmarks to express the speaker’s fear of incurring comparable guilt.
In the Drona Parva’s intense battlefield context, Arjuna voices moral anguish and anticipates dire post-mortem consequences, invoking well-known categories of ‘great sins’ to articulate the ethical weight of the action being contemplated.