Shloka 2
अध्याय ८० — मध्यंदिन-रणवृत्तान्तः
Yudhiṣṭhira–Śrutāyu encounter; Cekitāna–Gautama clash; Abhimanyu pressure; Arjuna’s redeployment
यानि त्वं दृष्टवान् राजन् धर्मसंकरकारिते । तव दोषात् पुरा वृत्तं द्यूतमेव विशाम्पते
yāni tvaṁ dṛṣṭavān rājan dharmasaṅkarakārite | tava doṣāt purā vṛttaṁ dyūtam eva viśāmpate ||
Sañjaya thưa: “Tâu Đại vương, chính những điều bệ hạ từng chứng kiến—những hành vi gây nên sự pha tạp và bại hoại của dharma—xưa kia đã phát sinh từ lỗi của bệ hạ: ấy là ván cờ bạc, hỡi chúa tể muôn dân.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses moral accountability: the present collapse into dharma-saṅkara (ethical and social disorder) is traced back to a specific earlier wrongdoing—allowing and participating in the dice-game—so the king must recognize causality and personal responsibility rather than treating events as fate alone.
Within the Bhīṣma Parva frame-dialogue, Sañjaya addresses Dhṛtarāṣṭra and reminds him that the chain of calamities he now hears/foresees was set in motion by Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s own earlier lapse connected to the dyūta episode, which became the seed of the wider conflict and disorder.