Shloka 39
भीष्मरथाभिमुख्यं — Arjuna’s advance with Śikhaṇḍin; Duḥśāsana’s interception
प्राक्रोशन् क्षत्रियास्तत्र दृष्टवा तद् वैशसं महत् । दुर्योधनापराधेन गच्छन्ति क्षत्रिया: क्षयम्,वहाँ खड़े हुए क्षत्रिय वह अत्यन्त भयंकर मारकाट देखकर यह पुकार-पुकारकर कह रहे थे कि दुर्योधनके अपराधसे ही सारे क्षत्रिय विनाशको प्राप्त हो रहे हैं
prākrośan kṣatriyās tatra dṛṣṭvā tad vaiśasaṁ mahat | duryodhanāparādhena gacchanti kṣatriyāḥ kṣayam ||
三阇耶说道：“在那里，刹帝利们目睹那浩大而可怖的屠戮，便一再高呼：‘皆因都利约陀那之罪，刹帝利众正被驱向毁灭！’”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights moral causality in public catastrophe: when a leader persists in wrongdoing (aparādha), the consequences spread beyond the individual, bringing collective ruin—here, the destruction of the kṣatriyas in war.
On the battlefield, warriors witness an overwhelming massacre and cry out that the ongoing destruction is occurring because of Duryodhana’s fault—an explicit attribution of the war’s devastation to his culpable choices.