Shloka 3
अध्याय ८० — मध्यंदिन-रणवृत्तान्तः
Yudhiṣṭhira–Śrutāyu encounter; Cekitāna–Gautama clash; Abhimanyu pressure; Arjuna’s redeployment
संजय कहते हैं--राजन! आपने अपने ही दोषसे यह संकट प्राप्त किया है। भरतश्रेष्ठ) जिन धर्म और अधर्मके सम्मिश्रणसे उत्पन्न दोषोंको आप देखते थे, उन्हें दुर्योधन नहीं देख सका था। प्रजानाथ! आपके अपराधसे ही पहले द्यूतक्रीड़ाकी घटना घटी थी ।।
sañjaya uvāca—rājan! āpena svadoṣeṇaiva idaṁ saṅkaṭaṁ prāptam. bharataśreṣṭha! ye dharma-adharma-sammīśraṇāt utpannān doṣān tvaṁ paśyasi, tān duryodhano na paśyati sma. prajānātha! tava aparādhenāiva pūrvaṁ dyūtakrīḍāyāḥ ghaṭanā abhavat. tava doṣeṇa yuddhaṁ ca pravṛttaṁ saha pāṇḍavaiḥ. tvam evādya phalaṁ bhuṅkṣe kṛtvā kilbiṣam ātmanā.
Wika ni Sanjaya: “O Hari, sa sarili mong kasalanan ka napasapit sa kapahamakan na ito. O pinakamainam sa mga Bharata, ang mga kapinsalaang isinilang sa paghahalo ng dharma at adharma—na ngayo’y nakikita mo—ay hindi nakita ni Duryodhana. O panginoon ng bayan, dahil sa iyong pagkakasala naganap noon ang pangyayaring pagsusugal. At dahil din sa iyong kasalanan, nagsimula ngayon ang digmaan laban sa mga Pandava. Yamang ikaw mismo ang gumawa ng kasalanan, ikaw rin ngayon ang tumitikim ng bunga nito.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral responsibility cannot be shifted: a ruler’s compromises—mixing dharma with adharma—generate consequences. The war and suffering are presented as the karmic fruit of Dhritarashtra’s earlier failures (especially permitting the dice-game and injustice), and blindness to wrongdoing (as in Duryodhana) worsens disaster.
Sanjaya addresses Dhritarashtra and bluntly attributes the present calamity and the outbreak of war with the Pandavas to the king’s own faults and prior offenses, recalling the dice-game as the initiating wrong and framing the current crisis as its inevitable result.