Shloka 33
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 47 — Arjuna’s Deterrent Declaration
Sañjaya’s Report
यदा द्रष्टा बालमबालवीर्य द्विषच्चमूं मृत्युमिवोत्पतन्तम् । सौभद्रमिन्द्रप्रतिमं कृतास्त्र तदा युद्ध धार्तराष्ट्रोडन्वतप्स्यत्
sañjaya uvāca | yadā draṣṭā bālam abāla-vīryaṃ dviṣac-camūṃ mṛtyum ivotpatantam | saubhadram indra-pratimaṃ kṛtāstraṃ tadā yuddhe dhārtarāṣṭro 'nutapsyat ||
サञ्जयは言った。「サウバドラを見よ――なお少年でありながら、幼さに似つかわしくない力を宿し、死そのもののように敵軍へ跳びかかる。しかもインドラに比すべき威勢を備え、武器の術にも通暁している――それを目の当たりにしたとき、戦のただ中でドリタラーシュトラの子は、この争いを挑んだことを悔いて胸を焦がすであろう。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores moral causality in warfare: initiating unjust conflict brings inevitable consequences, including remorse when one confronts the suffering and formidable resistance that one’s own choices have unleashed.
Sañjaya foretells that when Duryodhana sees Abhimanyu—young in age but mighty and weapon-skilled—charging the enemy host like Death, Duryodhana will regret having set the war in motion.