Shloka 25
द्रोण–सात्यकि द्वैरथम्
Droṇa and Sātyaki: The Chariot Duel
ये लोका ४8४६ | ये चापि पितृघातिनाम् । गुरुदारगतानां ये पिशुनानां च ये सदा
ye lokāḥ | ye cāpi pitṛghātinām | gurudāragatānāṃ ye piśunānāṃ ca ye sadā
अर्जुन उवाच—ये लोका पितृघातिनां नियताः, ये च गुरुदारगतानां, ये च नित्यं पिशुनानां—तान् लोकान् अहं स्वस्यापि मन्ये, यदि एतत् कर्म करिष्यामि।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames certain acts—patricide, violating the teacher’s wife, and habitual slander—as paradigmatic adharma with grave karmic consequences, using them as moral benchmarks to express the speaker’s fear of incurring comparable guilt.
In the Drona Parva’s intense battlefield context, Arjuna voices moral anguish and anticipates dire post-mortem consequences, invoking well-known categories of ‘great sins’ to articulate the ethical weight of the action being contemplated.