Shloka 11
अध्याय ९ — कर्णस्य प्रहारः, योधयुग्मनियोजनम्, शैनेय-कैकेययोर्युद्धविन्यासः
संजय! मेरे इस जीवनको धिक्कार है। आज मैं सुहृदोंसे हीन होकर इस घृणित दशाको पहुँच गया हूँ ।। कृपणं वर्तयिष्यामि शोच्य: सर्वस्य मन्दधी: । अहमेव पुरा भूत्वा सर्वलोकस्य सत्कृत:
sañjaya! mama asya jīvanako dhikkāraḥ asti. adya ahaṁ suhṛdbhiḥ hīnaḥ san etāṁ ghṛṇitāṁ daśāṁ prāptaḥ. kṛpaṇaṁ vartayiṣyāmi śocyaḥ sarvasya mandadhīḥ. aham eva purā bhūtvā sarvalokasya satkṛtaḥ.
Sinabi ni Dhṛtarāṣṭra: “Sañjaya, isumpa ang buhay kong ito. Ngayon, dahil wala na akong mga tunay na nagmamalasakit, napadpad ako sa kasuklam-suklam na kalagayang ito. Mabubuhay akong dukha at kaawa-awa—kahabag-habag sa paningin ng lahat, mapurol ang isip—gayong noon ay pinararangalan ako ng buong daigdig.”
धृतराष्ट उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the ethical consequence of failed discernment in leadership: a ruler who neglects wise counsel and enables wrongdoing may later face isolation, public pity, and self-reproach. Honor and status are shown to be fragile when not grounded in dharma and sound judgment.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra, hearing reports of the devastating war from Sañjaya, breaks into lamentation. He condemns his own life, admits he has become bereft of true well-wishers, and foresees a miserable existence—despite having once been widely honored as king.