Shloka 7
कर्णेन सैन्यस्थापनं तथा नानायुद्धसमवायः
Karna Reforms the Host and Multiple Duels Converge
नापितश्च ततो भूत्वा पुनर्भवति ब्राह्मण: । द्विजो भूत्वा च तत्रैव पुनर्दासोडभिजायते
nāpitaś ca tato bhūtvā punar bhavati brāhmaṇaḥ | dvijo bhūtvā ca tatraiva punar dāso 'bhijāyate ||
نائی بننے کے بعد وہ پھر برہمن بن جاتا ہے؛ اور اسی ملک میں دو بار جنم لینے والا (دویج) بن کر بھی وہ دوبارہ غلام کے طور پر پیدا ہوتا ہے۔
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse is not framed as a universal ethical injunction; it functions as wartime rhetoric. Karna weaponizes the idea of rebirth and shifting social status to depict a particular land/community as morally and socially degraded, thereby intensifying contempt and justifying hostility.
During the Karna Parva battle context, Karna is speaking in a confrontational tone. He describes a cycle of births—barber, Brahmin, twice-born, then slave—set “in that very land,” as part of a broader denunciation meant to insult and discredit the Bāhlīkas (as indicated by the surrounding lines in the Gita Press passage).