Shloka 303
यतितं विजये नित्य दैवं तु दुरतिक्रमम् । “आपलोगोंने अपने स्वरूपके अनुरूप योग्य पराक्रम प्रकट किया और सदा मुझे विजय दिलानेकी ही चेष्टा की; तथापि दैवके विधानका उल्लंघन करना किसीके लिये भी सर्वथा कठिन है”
yatitaṃ vijaye nityaṃ daivaṃ tu duratikramam |
Wika ni Sañjaya: “Walang tigil ninyong pinagsikapan ang tagumpay, at ipinamalas ninyo ang lakas-loob na angkop sa inyong pagkatao; gayunman, ang pasya ng tadhana ay napakahirap lampasan ninuman.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even sustained human effort toward a goal (here, victory in war) can be thwarted by daiva—destiny or divine ordinance—whose course is portrayed as extremely difficult to override; the verse frames a moral tension between personal agency and the limits imposed by fate.
Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, reflects that the warriors made continual efforts for victory, yet the outcome is constrained by destiny; it functions as a sober commentary on the unfolding defeat and the inevitability felt in the war’s conclusion.