Shloka 34
अभिमन्यु ही उदगाता और महाबली नरश्रेष्ठ भीमसेन ही प्रस्तोता होंगे, जो रणभूमिमें गर्जना करते हुए शत्रुपक्षके हाथियोंकी सेनाका विनाश कर डालेंगे ।। स चैव तत्र धर्मात्मा शश्वद् राजा युधिष्ठिर: । जपैहेमिश्न संयुक्तो ब्रह्म॒त्वं कारयिष्यति,वे धर्मात्मा राजा युधिष्ठिर ही सदा जप और होममें संलग्न रहकर उस यज्ञमें ब्रह्माका कार्य सम्पन्न करेंगे
abhimanyuḥ hy udgātā ca mahābalī naraśreṣṭho bhīmasenaḥ prastotā bhaviṣyati, yo raṇabhūmau garjann eva śatrupakṣasya hastisenāṃ vināśayiṣyati. sa caiva tatra dharmātmā śaśvad rājā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ, japa-homa-śnānasaṃyukto brahmatvaṃ kārayiṣyati.
Ipinahayag ni Karna na si Abhimanyu ang magsisilbing udgātṛ, at si Bhīmasena—makapangyarihan, pinakamainam sa mga tao—ang magiging prastotṛ; umuungal sa larangan, dudurugin niya ang pangkat ng mga elepanteng pandigma ng kaaway. At doon, si Haring Yudhiṣṭhira na laging matuwid sa dharma, palaging nakatuon sa pagbigkas ng mga mantra at sa paghahandog sa apoy, ang gaganap bilang paring Brahmā sa banal na ritong iyon—inaanyuan ang darating na digmaan bilang isang madilim na sakripisyong pinamamahalaan ng dharma at disiplina.
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse casts the impending war in the idiom of a yajña: disciplined roles, ritual purity, and dharma are emphasized even amid violence. It suggests that righteous leadership (Yudhiṣṭhira’s dharmātmā nature) must anchor action, while power (Bhīma’s martial force) is directed within an ethical and orderly framework.
Karna is describing (in prophetic or rhetorical terms) the Pāṇḍavas’ arrangement as if for a sacrifice: Abhimanyu and Bhīma are assigned priestly titles (udgātṛ, prastotṛ), while Bhīma simultaneously is portrayed as destroying the enemy’s elephant forces on the battlefield. Yudhiṣṭhira is said to perform the Brahmā-priest’s supervisory role through constant japa and homa.