Shloka 27
Sabhā Parva, Adhyāya 68 — Pāṇḍavānāṃ Vanavāsa-prasthānaḥ; Duḥśāsana-nindā; Pāṇḍava-pratijñāḥ
उस कोलाहलके शान्त होनेपर राधानन्दन कर्ण क्रोधसे मूर्च्छिंत हो उसकी सुन्दर बाँह पकड़कर इस प्रकार बोला ।।
karṇa uvāca | dṛśyante vai vikarṇeha vaikṛtāni bahūny api | tajjātas tadvināśāya yathāgnir araṇiprajaḥ ||
迦尔纳说道：“维迦尔纳啊，在这世间，常可见许多事物结出乖谬而有害的果报。正如由阿兰尼木钻生出的火，终究反过来焚尽那木钻；同样，有人虽生于一族之中，却会成为毁灭该族的祸根。”
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Karna uses a moral analogy: causes can generate their own destroyers. One should recognize that a person born within a lineage may act against its welfare, just as fire produced from araṇi-sticks consumes the very sticks that produced it.
After the commotion subsides, Karna—angered—addresses Vikarna and rebukes him through a pointed metaphor, implying that someone within a family can become the agent of that family’s downfall.