Shloka 333
कर्णपर्व — अध्याय ५७
Arjuna’s targeted advance; Śalya–Karṇa dialogue; interception attempts
वदनै: पश्य संछज्ञां महीं शोणितकर्दमाम् । “देखो
vadanaiḥ paśya sañchannāṃ mahīṃ śoṇita-kardamām |
サンジャヤは言った。「見よ――大地は顔で覆い尽くされ、地面は血の泥と化した。戦場は、倒れた勇士たちの飾り立てられた面貌で塞がれている――月や星のように輝き、愛らしい耳飾りをつけ、髭と口髭をたたえたその顔が、いまは戦のもたらす破滅の冷酷な証として横たわっているのだ。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the devastating cost of war: even heroic beauty and martial glory end in destruction, turning the earth into a blood-soaked mire. It functions as a moral warning about the dehumanizing aftermath of violence and the fragility of worldly splendor.
Sañjaya, narrating the Kurukṣetra war, points out to the listener that the battlefield has become densely strewn with the severed or fallen faces of warriors, and the ground is churned into mud by blood—an intense visual of carnage after fierce fighting.