Shloka 23
Chapter 59: Baladeva’s Censure, Keśava’s Restraint, and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Moral Accounting
धात्रोपदिष्टं विषमं नूनं फलमसंस्कृतम् । यद् वयं त्वां जिघांसामस्त्वं चास्मान् कुरुसत्तम
dhātropadiṣṭaṃ viṣamaṃ nūnaṃ phalam asaṃskṛtam | yad vayaṃ tvāṃ jighāṃsāmas tvaṃ cāsmān kurusattama ||
三阇耶说道：“这般严酷而不均的结局——不净之果——确是造命者所分配。事已至此：我们欲杀你，而你亦欲杀我们，哦，俱卢中之最胜者。”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames fratricidal war as the bitter ‘fruit’ of morally flawed past actions, now ripening as an adverse destiny allotted by the cosmic Ordainer—highlighting the ethical tragedy that violence rebounds upon one’s own kin.
Sanjaya, narrating events to Dhritarashtra, laments that the conflict has reached a point where both sides—kinsmen of the Kuru line—are mutually intent on killing each other, and he interprets this as a grim, divinely allotted consequence of impure deeds.