Shloka 99
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 47 — Arjuna’s Deterrent Declaration
Sañjaya’s Report
उच्चावचं दैवयुक्तं रहस्यं दिव्या: प्रश्ना मृगचक्रा मुहूर्ता: । क्षयं महान्तं कुरुसूंजयानां निवेदयन्ते पाण्डवानां जयं च
sañjaya uvāca |
ucchāvacaṃ daivayuktaṃ rahasyaṃ divyāḥ praśnā mṛgacakrā muhūrtāḥ |
kṣayaṃ mahāntaṃ kurusūñjayānāṃ nivedayante pāṇḍavānāṃ jayaṃ ca ||
सञ्जय उवाच— ते उच्चावचं दैवयुक्तं रहस्यं प्रकाशयितुं शक्नुवन्ति, दिव्यैः प्रश्नैः अद्भुतरीत्या प्रत्युत्तरं ददति येन भाविकार्यज्ञानं भवति। सर्वतोभद्रादिचक्रैः शुभाशुभफलानां विचारं कुर्वन्ति, मुहूर्तशास्त्रे च निपुणाः। ते दृढं निवेदयन्ति—कुरुसूंजयानां महत् क्षयः, अस्मिन् महायुद्धे पाण्डवानां जयश्च।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores that outcomes in the coming war are not merely strategic but bound up with daiva (the moral-cosmic order of consequences). Expert prognostication—through questions, timing, and divinatory ‘wheels’—converges on a single ethical-narrative conclusion: adharma-driven aggression leads to ruin, while the side aligned with rightful claim and restraint is foretold to prevail.
Sañjaya reports to the Kuru court that skilled seers/astrologer-diviners, versed in muhūrta and prognosticatory diagrams, have declared a grim forecast: massive destruction will befall the Kurus and Sūñjayas, and the Pāṇḍavas will win the impending great war.