Shloka 14
अलंबलवधः (Alaṃbala-vadhaḥ) / The Slaying of Alaṃbala and the Advance toward Karṇa
कुलान्तकरणे पापे जातमात्रे सुयोधने । नीयतां परलोकाय साध्वयं कुलपांसन:
kulāntakaraṇe pāpe jātamātre suyodhane | nīyatāṃ paralokāya sādhv ayaṃ kulapāṃsanaḥ ||
Sañjaya berkata: «Si pendosa ini—Suyodhana—yang lahir untuk membinasakan keturunan, sepatutnya sejak lahir lagi dihantar ke alam sana. Sesungguhnya dialah aib dan debu kotor bagi keluarganya.»
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames adharma as socially and spiritually destructive: a single person’s sinful disposition can threaten the continuity and honor of an entire lineage, and such wrongdoing is portrayed as warranting the severest moral judgment.
Sañjaya reports a harsh denunciation of Suyodhana (Duryodhana), calling him a lineage-ruiner and family disgrace, asserting that he ought to have been removed from life even at birth—an expression of the perceived catastrophic consequences of his actions in the war.