Shloka 7
यदा रजस्वलां कृष्णां दःशासनवशे स्थिताम् | सभायां प्राहस: कर्ण क््व ते धर्मस्तदा गत:
yadā rajasvalāṃ kṛṣṇāṃ duḥśāsana-vaśe sthitām | sabhāyāṃ prāhasaḥ karṇa kva te dharmas tadā gataḥ ||
سنجے نے کہا—کَرن! جب حیض کی حالت میں کرشنا (دروپدی) دُہشاسن کے قبضے میں بے بس ہو کر سبھا میں تھی اور تم نے اس کا تمسخر اڑایا، اُس گھڑی تمہارا دھرم کہاں چلا گیا تھا؟
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral authority in war or debate is undermined by past complicity in injustice. Sañjaya confronts Karna with ethical inconsistency: one cannot claim dharma while having mocked a vulnerable woman during a grave violation in the assembly.
In the Karṇa Parva, Sañjaya recalls the earlier dice-hall episode to rebuke Karna. He points to Karna’s derision of Draupadī—then under Duḥśāsana’s power in the sabhā—as evidence that Karna abandoned dharma at a decisive moment, foreshadowing the moral reckoning of the war.