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 ||
Sañjaya nói: “Karṇa, khi ở triều hội, Draupadī—Kṛṣṇā—đang trong kỳ kinh nguyệt, bất lực dưới tay Duḥśāsana, mà ngươi lại đem nàng ra chế nhạo; thì lúc ấy dharma của ngươi đã đi đâu?”
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.