Shloka 29
तेषु प्रकाल्यमानेषु दस्यून् दुःशासनोडब्रवीत् । निवर्तध्वमधर्मज्ञा युध्यध्वं कि सृतेन व:
teṣu prakālyamāneṣu dasyūn duḥśāsano 'bravīt | nivartadhvam adharmajñā yudhyadhvaṃ kiṃ sṛtena vaḥ ||
当那些大象被驱赶着奔向死亡的巨口之时，杜赫沙萨那对那些掠夺的匪徒喝道：“你们这些不知达摩之辈——如此逃窜能得什么？回转身来作战！这般奔逃对你们有何用处？”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames battlefield flight as futile and dishonorable, urging a return to combat as the expected duty; it contrasts impulsive plunder and panic with the demanded discipline of righteous warfare (dharma) as understood in the epic’s kṣatriya ethos.
In the midst of the Drona Parva battle, as elephants are being pushed into deadly danger, Sañjaya reports that Duḥśāsana rebukes a group described as dasyus (raiders) who are retreating, commanding them to turn back and fight rather than flee.