Shloka 8
स्वर्गे दुर्योधनदर्शनम् | Duryodhana Seen in Heaven
Triviṣṭapa
यत्कृते पृथिवी सर्वा सुहृदो बान्धवास्तथा । हतास्माभि: प्रसह्याजौ क्लिष्टै: पूर्व महावने
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca |
yat-kṛte pṛthivī sarvā suhṛdo bāndhavās tathā |
hatāsmābhiḥ prasahyājau kliṣṭaiḥ pūrvaṃ mahāvane ||
وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—“جس کے سبب ساری زمین ویران ہوئی، اور ہمارے دوست و رشتہ دار بھی جنگ میں ہمارے ہی ہاتھوں زبردستی مارے گئے؛ اور جس کے باعث ہم پہلے عظیم جنگل میں سخت مصیبتیں جھیلتے رہے—”
वैशग्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames war as an ethically weighty act whose consequences include the destruction of the land and the loss of one’s own friends and relatives; it points toward moral reckoning and responsibility for violence done “for someone’s sake.”
Vaiśaṃpāyana narrates a speaker’s lament, recalling that for a particular cause/person the protagonists devastated the earth, killed their own kin in battle, and previously suffered hardship during their forest exile.