Shloka 6
Adhyāya 40 (Book 7, Droṇa-parva): Abhimanyu’s Rapid Advance and Battlefield Disruption
लोभस्य ज्ञाननाशस्य द्रोहस्यात्याहितस्थ च । पितृणां मम राज्यस्य हरणस्योग्रधन्विनाम्
lobhasya jñānanāśasya drohasyātyāhitasya ca | pitṝṇāṁ mama rājyasya haraṇasyogradhanvinām ||
ಇದು ಲೋಭ, ವಿವೇಕನಾಶ, ದ್ರೋಹ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾರೀ ಅನ್ಯಾಯಗಳ ಫಲ; ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ನನ್ನ ಉಗ್ರಧನುರ್ಧರ ಪಿತೃಗಳ ರಾಜ್ಯವನ್ನು ಕಸಿದುಕೊಂಡ ಪಾಪ—ಅದರ ದುಷ್ಫಲವೇ ಇಂದು ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿದೆ.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links political catastrophe to inner moral failure: greed leads to the loss of right judgment, which in turn enables betrayal and grave wrongdoing—culminating in the unjust seizure of rightful sovereignty.
Sañjaya frames the conflict by naming the causes and consequences behind the war: the Kuru struggle is presented as arising from greed and treachery, resulting in the usurpation of the ancestral kingdom by formidable warriors.