Shloka 28

कर्णवधोत्तरं शल्य-दुर्योधनसंवादः

Aftermath of Karṇa’s Fall: Śalya’s Address to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

अस्मान्‌ नैवं पुत्रदारैर्विहीनान्‌ सुखाद्‌ भ्रष्टान्‌ राज्यनाशाच्च भूय:

Transliteration

asmān naivaṁ putradārair vihīnān sukhād bhraṣṭān rājyānāśāc ca bhūyaḥ

Translation

三阇耶说道：“愿我们不要再陷入这般境地——失去儿子与妻室，坠离安乐，又因国土覆亡而更遭毁灭。”

Word by Word

• अस्मान्: us
• अस्मान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• पुत्रदारैः: by sons and wives (i.e., with family)
• पुत्रदारैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• विहीनान्: deprived (of), bereft
• विहीनान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विहीन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• सुखात्: from happiness/comfort
• सुखात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• भ्रष्टान्: fallen, deprived, ruined
• भ्रष्टान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भ्रष्ट
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• राज्यनाशात्: from the destruction/loss of the kingdom
• राज्यनाशात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राज्यनाश
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• भूयः: again, further, moreover
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: भूयस्

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• sons (putra)
• wives (dāra)
• kingdom (rājya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores how war and political ambition can culminate in layered ruin—loss of family, loss of happiness, and loss of sovereignty—warning that the collapse of dharmic restraint brings repeated suffering.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, reporting the events of the Kurukṣetra war, voices a lamenting fear that ‘we’ (the Kuru side) may again be reduced to a condition of utter deprivation—without family, without joy, and with the kingdom destroyed.