Shloka 27

Devanagari script

भुक्तपूर्वा स्त्रियं ये च विन्दतामघशंसिनाम्‌ | ब्रह्मघ्नानां च ये लोका ये च गोघातिनामपि

Transliteration

bhuktapūrvā striyaṁ ye ca vindatām aghaśaṁsinām | brahmaghnānāṁ ca ye lokā ye ca goghātinām api

Translation

アルジュナは言った。「残虐にして罪深き業をなす者は、最重の罪人と同じ報いを受けよ。すでに他者に享された女を己の分として取らされ、また婆羅門殺しと牛殺しに定められた世界にも至れ。」

Word by Word

भुक्तपूर्वाःhaving previously enjoyed (i.e., having had intercourse before)

स्त्रियम्a woman

येwho

चand

विन्दताम्may they obtain / let them obtain

अघशंसिनाम्of evil-speakers / of those who utter evil (curses/slanders)

ब्रह्मघ्नानाम्of brahmin-slayers

चand

येwhich / those (worlds) that

लोकाःworlds (realms)

येwhich / those (worlds) that

चand

गोघातिनाम्of cow-slayers

अपिalso / even

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Arjuna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames certain acts as extreme adharma and invokes the idea that perpetrators should fall into the same dreadful moral category as Brahmin-slayers and cow-killers, emphasizing that grave wrongdoing leads to correspondingly grave karmic and post-mortem consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the heat of the Drona-parvan conflict, Arjuna voices a fierce denunciation of cruel wrongdoers, expressing a wish that they suffer the harshest fates—socially (dishonour and violation of rightful relations) and spiritually (hellish realms associated with major sins).