Shloka 243
Karna Reproves Shalya; Brahmin Reports on Bāhlīkas; Shalya’s Universalizing Rebuttal (कर्ण–शल्य संवादः)
सोढा घोराणि बहुश: शल्यभूतानि संजय । अहो! द्यूतक्रीडाका यह घोर परिणाम इस समय प्रकट हुआ है। संजय! आश्चर्य है कि मैंने दुर्योधनके कारण बहुत-से तीव्र एवं भयंकर दुःख, जो काँटोंके समान कसक रहे हैं, सहन किये हैं
soḍhā ghorāṇi bahuśaḥ śalyabhūtāni sañjaya | aho dyūtakrīḍākāyaḥ ghoraḥ pariṇāmaḥ asmin samaye prakaṭaḥ | sañjaya āścaryam etat yat mayā duryodhanakāraṇāt bahūni tīvra-bhayānakāni duḥkhāni kaṇṭakavat kaṣamāṇāni soḍhāni |
三阇耶说道：“我一再忍受无数可怖的苦痛——那疼楚仿佛倒刺般扎在体内。唉，那场掷骰赌博的惨烈后果，如今就在此刻显现了。三阇耶，真令人惊异：因为都利约陀那，我承受了数不尽的尖锐而可怕的哀伤，刺痛如荆棘。”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions driven by greed and adharma—here symbolized by the dice-game—ripen into unavoidable suffering. The verse underscores moral causality: a single unethical choice can expand into repeated, thorn-like pains for many.
In the midst of the war’s grim unfolding, Sañjaya reflects on how the present catastrophe is the visible fruition of the earlier gambling episode, and he attributes the chain of agonies to Duryodhana’s role in that wrongdoing.