Shloka 60

Devanagari script

सेना हि धार्तराष्ट्रस्य विमुखा विक्षरद्व्रणा,इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कृष्णार्जुनसंवादे षष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

senā hi dhārtarāṣṭrasya vimukhā vikṣarad-vraṇā | iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi kṛṣṇārjuna-saṃvāde ṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ ||

Translation

சஞ்சயன் கூறினான்—திருதராஷ்டிரரின் புதல்வர்களின் படை பின்வாங்கி முகம் திருப்பியது; அவர்களின் காயங்கள் பிளந்து இரத்தம் சிந்தியது. இவ்வாறு ஸ்ரீமஹாபாரதத்தின் கர்ணபர்வத்தில் கிருஷ்ண-அர்ஜுன உரையாடலின் அறுபதாம் அத்தியாயம் நிறைவுற்றது।

Word by Word

• सेना: army
• सेना: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सेना
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• धार्तराष्ट्रस्य: of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (i.e., the Kauravas)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धार्तराष्ट्र
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• विमुखा: turned away/routed
• विमुखा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विमुख
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• विक्षरत्: oozing/streaming forth
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि+क्षर्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• व्रणा: with/through a wound
• व्रणा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्रण
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (by implication in dhārtarāṣṭrasya)
• Kṛṣṇa
• Arjuna
• Kaurava army (Dhārtarāṣṭra’s forces)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even a powerful army collapses when its cause and conduct are unrighteous and its resolve breaks; the verse highlights the visible human cost of war—wounds and suffering—and implies that adharma leads to defeat and misery.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that the Kaurava forces (Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s side) have turned away in retreat, bleeding from many wounds. The line also functions as a chapter-colophon marking the end of the 60th chapter within the Kṛṣṇa–Arjuna dialogue section of Karṇa Parva.