Shloka 34
हत्वा शतसहस््राणि योधानां निशितै: शरै: । न्यस्तशस्त्रो मम पिता धृष्टद्युम्नेन पातित:
hatvā śatasahasrāṇi yodhānāṃ niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ | nyastaśastro mama pitā dhṛṣṭadyumnena pātitaḥ ||
サンジャヤは言った。「我が父は鋭き矢で幾十万の戦士を討ち果たしたのち、武器を捨てたその時に、ドリシュタデュムナによって打ち倒され殺されたのだ。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the moral tension of warfare: even after immense slaughter, killing a warrior who has laid down weapons is portrayed as ethically problematic, underscoring how dharma becomes obscured and violated in the later stages of the Kurukṣetra conflict.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that his father, after killing vast numbers in battle, had put down his weapons; in that disarmed state he was felled by Dhṛṣṭadyumna, and Sañjaya frames it as a wrongful killing of one who had ceased fighting.