Mahabharata 7.175.58 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 175, Shloka 58
जहि कर्ण महेष्वासं निशीथे मायया रणे । पार्था द्रोणं वधिष्यन्ति धृष्टद्युम्नपुरोगमा:
jahi karṇa maheṣvāsaṃ niśīthe māyayā raṇe | pārthā droṇaṃ vadhiṣyanti dhṛṣṭadyumnapurogamāḥ ||
Wika ni Vāyu: “Patayin mo si Karṇa, ang dakilang mamamana, sa larangan ng digmaan sa hatinggabi sa pamamagitan ng iyong pakana. Pagkaraan, ang mga anak ni Pṛthā, na pinangungunahan ni Dhṛṣṭadyumna, ang magdudulot ng kamatayan ni Droṇa.”
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The verse highlights the moral tension of warfare: strategic necessity (night attack and deception) is presented as a means to decisive outcomes, suggesting how dharma becomes contested and compromised under extreme conflict.
Vāyu addresses a listener (implied commander/agent) with a directive and prediction: Karṇa is to be killed at midnight through a stratagem, and thereafter the Pāṇḍavas, led by Dhṛṣṭadyumna, will kill Droṇa.
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