Shloka 38
भीमसेनस्य बहुमहारथसंयुगः
Bhīmasena’s Engagement with Multiple Mahārathas
अवध्यानां वध कृत्वा राज्यं वा नरकोत्तरम्
avadhyānāṁ vadhaṁ kṛtvā rājyaṁ vā narakottaram
Sanjaya berkata: “Setelah membunuh mereka yang tidak patut dibunuh, seseorang mungkin memperoleh kerajaan—namun ganjaran itu menjadi ‘melampaui neraka’, kerana kedaulatan yang dibeli dengan pembunuhan yang tidak benar berubah menjadi kejatuhan moral dan rohani.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even if unrighteous violence yields political success, the act of killing those protected by dharma corrupts that success and brings severe karmic and ethical consequences—making the ‘gain’ effectively hellish.
Sañjaya, narrating events and reflections from the battlefield context, frames the moral cost of war: the prospect of winning a kingdom is weighed against the grave wrongdoing of slaying those who should not be slain.