Mahabharata 7.116.7 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 116, Shloka 7
Śaineya’s Breakthrough and Reunion with Arjuna (शैनेयस्य समागमः)
न गोष्ठया नोपकारेण न सम्बन्धनिमित्तत: । नानाहूत॑ नाप्यभूतं मम सैन्यं बभूव ह
sañjaya uvāca
na goṣṭhayā nopakāreṇa na sambandha-nimittataḥ | nānāhūtaṃ nāpy abhūtaṃ mama sainyaṃ babhūva ha ||
संजय म्हणाला—गोष्टीच्या दबावाने फुसलवून, उपकार करून किंवा नातेसंबंधामुळे माझी सेना उभी राहिलेली नाही। यांत असा कोणी नाही की ज्याला बोलावले नाही, किंवा ज्याला पकडून बेगारासाठी आणले। माझ्या संपूर्ण सैन्याची हीच स्थिती आहे।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses ethical legitimacy and accountability in wartime organization: soldiers should be properly summoned and willingly enlisted, not obtained through manipulation, patronage, nepotism, or coercive seizure.
Sañjaya, reporting events, characterizes the composition of ‘my army’ as orderly and legitimate—asserting that no one was dragged in by force or included without being formally called—thereby framing the host as properly constituted in the midst of the Drona Parva war narrative.
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