Shloka 19
Chapter 59: Baladeva’s Censure, Keśava’s Restraint, and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Moral Accounting
विध्वस्तो5यं हतामात्यो हतभ्राता हतप्रज: । उत्सन्नपिण्डो भ्राता च नैतन्न्याय्यं कृतं त्वया
vidhvasto ’yaṁ hatāmātyo hatabhrātā hataprajaḥ | utsannapiṇḍo bhrātā ca naitannyāyyaṁ kṛtaṁ tvayā ||
サンジャヤは言った。「この者はことごとく滅びた。重臣は討たれ、兄弟も討たれ、民もまた斃れた。葬送の供物の系譜は断たれ、彼にピṇḍa（供団）を捧げる者はもはやいない。しかも彼は我ら自身の兄弟である。おまえが彼にしたことは正しくない、道にかなわぬ。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even amid war, actions are judged by dharma and nyāya: destroying a kinsman’s support-system (ministers, kin, subjects) and cutting off his ritual continuity (piṇḍa/śrāddha) is portrayed as ethically improper, especially when the victim is ‘our own brother’.
Sañjaya reports a moral protest: someone has been thoroughly devastated—his advisers, brother, and people have been killed, leaving him without anyone to perform funeral rites. Sañjaya condemns the deed as unjust and emphasizes the bond of brotherhood.