Shloka 293
कर्णेन सैन्यस्थापनं तथा नानायुद्धसमवायः
Karna Reforms the Host and Multiple Duels Converge
येषां धर्मस्तान् प्रति नास्त्यधर्मो ह्यारट्टानां पजचनदान् धिगस्तु । कृतघ्नता, दूसरोंके धनका अपहरण, मदिरापान, गुरुपत्नीगमन, कटुवचनका प्रयोग, गोवध, रातके समय घरसे बाहर घूमना और दूसरोंके वस्त्रका उपभोग करना-ये सब जिनके धर्म हैं, उन आरट्टों और पंचनदवासियोंके लिये अधर्म नामकी कोई वस्तु है ही नहीं। उन्हें धिक्कार है!
yeṣāṃ dharmas tān prati nāsty adharmo hy āraṭṭānāṃ pañcanadān dhig astu | kṛtaghnatā paradhanāpaharaṇaṃ madirāpānaṃ gurupatnīgamanam kaṭuvacanaprayogaḥ govadhaḥ rātrau gṛhād bahiḥ paribhramaṇaṃ paravastrabhogaś ca—ete sarve yeṣāṃ dharmāḥ, teṣām āraṭṭānāṃ pañcanadāvāsināṃ cādharmo nāma vastu nāsty eva | tebhyo dhig astu ||
迦尔那说道：“若有人把忘恩负义、夺取他人财物、饮酒纵醉、染指师妻、恶言相向、屠牛、夜间游荡于外、穿用他人衣物——这一切都当作自己的‘达摩’，那么对他们而言便根本没有所谓‘非达摩’，因为他们以罪恶为生之常则。可耻啊，那些阿罗吒人以及旁遮那陀的居民！”
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse condemns a mindset where repeated wrongdoing is normalized as ‘dharma’; it asserts that when immoral acts become habitual and socially accepted, the very category of ‘adharma’ disappears for such people—hence the moral denunciation.
In Karna’s speech during the war narrative, he denounces certain groups (Āraṭṭas and Pañcanada inhabitants) by listing behaviors he deems gravely unrighteous, using this as rhetorical blame and moral vilification within the conflict context.