Shloka 47
कर्णनिधनश्रवणम् — Hearing of Karṇa’s Fall and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Lament
मालवा मद्रकाश्रैव द्राविडाश्नोग्रकर्मिण: । यौधेयाश्व ललित्थाशक्ष क्षुद्रका श्चाप्पुशीनरा:
sañjaya uvāca |
mālavā madrakāś caiva drāviḍāś cogra-karmiṇaḥ |
yaudheyāś ca lalitthāś ca kṣudrakāś cāpi uśīnarāḥ ||
サンジャヤは言った。マーラヴァとマドラカ、そして凶烈な業をなすドラーヴィダ；ヤウデーヤとラリットタ、クシュドラカとウシーナラ——これら諸国の軍勢は、戦の密集するただ中で斬り伏せられた。この報は、多くの王国を巻き込む戦の巨大さと、武の野望が払う恐るべき代価を示す。ひとりの覇者の武威によって、民そのものが滅びへと掃き流されるのである。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how war consumes not only individual warriors but entire communities. Ethically, it points to the far-reaching consequences of political rivalry and kṣatriya ambition: countless regional peoples are drawn into a conflict whose scale overwhelms ordinary moral accounting.
Sañjaya lists various peoples and contingents present in the battle and indicates their involvement and devastation in the fighting. It functions as a battlefield catalogue, emphasizing the breadth of forces engaged and the intensity of the slaughter.