Shloka 99
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 47 — Arjuna’s Deterrent Declaration
Sañjaya’s Report
उच्चावचं दैवयुक्तं रहस्यं दिव्या: प्रश्ना मृगचक्रा मुहूर्ता: । क्षयं महान्तं कुरुसूंजयानां निवेदयन्ते पाण्डवानां जयं च
sañjaya uvāca |
ucchāvacaṃ daivayuktaṃ rahasyaṃ divyāḥ praśnā mṛgacakrā muhūrtāḥ |
kṣayaṃ mahāntaṃ kurusūñjayānāṃ nivedayante pāṇḍavānāṃ jayaṃ ca ||
サンジャヤは言った。「彼らは運命に結びつく秘められた奥義を明かし、興隆と没落の理を悟らせる。問いには驚くべき、ほとんど神業のごとき仕方で答え、未だ来ぬ出来事を見通させる。遍方の『バドラ輪』などの占輪を用いて吉凶を究め、また吉時を定める学の達人として、彼らは断言して告げる――クル族とスーンジャヤの民には大いなる滅びが待ち、この大戦ではパーンダヴァが勝利する、と。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores that outcomes in the coming war are not merely strategic but bound up with daiva (the moral-cosmic order of consequences). Expert prognostication—through questions, timing, and divinatory ‘wheels’—converges on a single ethical-narrative conclusion: adharma-driven aggression leads to ruin, while the side aligned with rightful claim and restraint is foretold to prevail.
Sañjaya reports to the Kuru court that skilled seers/astrologer-diviners, versed in muhūrta and prognosticatory diagrams, have declared a grim forecast: massive destruction will befall the Kurus and Sūñjayas, and the Pāṇḍavas will win the impending great war.