Shloka 33

Karna Reproves Shalya; Brahmin Reports on Bāhlīkas; Shalya’s Universalizing Rebuttal (कर्ण–शल्य संवादः)

Devanagari script

तत्त्विदानीमतिक्रान्तं मा शुचो भरतर्षभ | शृणु सर्व यथावृत्तं घोरं वैशसमुच्यते,भरतश्रेष्ठ। वह बात तो अब बीत गयी। उसके लिये शोक न करें। युद्धका सारा वृत्तान्त यथावत्‌ रूपसे सुनें। मैं उस भयंकर विनाशका वर्णन करता हूँ

Transliteration

tattv idānīm atikrāntaṃ mā śuco bharatarṣabha | śṛṇu sarvaṃ yathāvṛttaṃ ghoraṃ vaiśasam ucyate bharataśreṣṭha ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「そのことは今や過ぎ去った。嘆くな、バラタ族の雄よ。起こったままの全てを聞け。私は、あの恐るべき殺戮と破滅の有様を語ろう。」

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'tattva', 'definition': 'that matter

• that fact/point under discussion'}, {'term': 'idānīm', 'definition': 'now

• at this time'}, {'term': 'atikrāntam', 'definition': 'gone by

• already over'}, {'term': 'mā śucaḥ', 'definition': 'do not grieve (prohibitive + imperative sense)'}, {'term': 'bharatarṣabha', 'definition': 'O bull among the Bharatas

• an honorific for a foremost Kuru (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra)'}, {'term': 'śṛṇu', 'definition': 'listen

• hear'}, {'term': 'sarvam', 'definition': 'everything

• the whole (account)'}, {'term': 'yathāvṛttam', 'definition': 'as it happened

• according to what occurred'}, {'term': 'ghoram', 'definition': 'terrible

• horrific'}, {'term': 'vaiśasam', 'definition': 'slaughter

• violent calamity/ruin'}, {'term': 'ucyate', 'definition': 'is said

• is to be spoken/related'}, {'term': 'bharataśreṣṭha', 'definition': 'O best of the Bharatas

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by the vocatives bharatarṣabha/bharataśreṣṭha)
• Bharatas (Kuru lineage)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse urges restraint in grief over what cannot be changed and emphasizes truthful, complete hearing of events “as they happened” (yathāvṛttam). Ethically, it frames the coming account as a warning about the dreadful consequences of war and misjudgment, rather than as mere spectacle.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya addresses Dhṛtarāṣṭra, telling him that a particular moment has already passed and that lamentation is futile. He then prepares to recount, in full and accurately, the horrific destruction (vaiśasa) that occurred in the battle.