Shloka 32
Karna Reproves Shalya; Brahmin Reports on Bāhlīkas; Shalya’s Universalizing Rebuttal (कर्ण–शल्य संवादः)
त्वया पापानि घोराणि समाचीर्णानि पाण्डुषु । त्वत्कृते वर्तते घोर: पार्थिवानां जनक्षय:,आपने पाण्डवोंपर भयंकर अत्याचार किये हैं। आपके ही कारण राजाओंद्वारा यह घोर नरसंहार हो रहा है
tvayā pāpāni ghorāṇi samācīrṇāni pāṇḍuṣu | tvatkṛte vartate ghoraḥ pārthivānāṃ janakṣayaḥ ||
Wika ni Sañjaya: “Nakagawa ka ng kakila-kilabot na mga kasalanan laban sa mga Pāṇḍava. Dahil sa iyo, nagaganap ngayon ang isang nakapanghihilakbot na paglipol—sa mga hari at sa kanilang mga nasasakupan.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Adharma is not private: grave wrongdoing against the righteous (here, the Pāṇḍavas) ripens into collective catastrophe. The verse stresses moral accountability—one person’s choices can become the cause (tvatkṛte) of widespread destruction (janakṣaya).
Sañjaya, reporting the war to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, directly attributes the ongoing horrific slaughter of kings to Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s earlier sins and complicity in injustices done to the Pāṇḍavas, framing the battlefield losses as the consequence of those acts.