Shloka 383
अध्याय ९ — दुर्योधनस्य अन्त्यावस्था, विलापः, तथा सौप्तिक-प्रतिवृत्तम्
Duryodhana’s Final Condition, Lamentation, and the Night’s Report
यादृशेन पुरस्कृत्य त्वं गत: सर्वपार्थिवान् । “महाराज! आप जिस भावसे समस्त राजाओंको आगे करके स्वर्ग सिधार रहे हैं, हम पापी ऐसा भाव कहाँसे ला सकेंगे?
yādṛśena puraskṛtya tvaṁ gataḥ sarvapārthivān |
सञ्जय उवाच—महाराज, येन भावेन त्वं सर्वपार्थिवान् पुरस्कृत्य स्वर्गं गच्छसि, तादृशं भावं वयं पापाः कुतो लभेमहि?
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts a righteous, elevated inner disposition with the self-awareness of moral failure: those burdened by wrongdoing feel unfit to claim the same noble resolve or spiritual confidence as one who departs with honor and dharmic composure.
Sañjaya addresses the king, reflecting on the king’s imagined or described departure toward heaven with a dignified attitude that ‘puts the kings in front’—suggesting honor, precedence, or leadership—while Sañjaya (speaking for ‘we’) confesses their own sense of sin and inability to rise to that same state of mind.