Shloka 16
दुःखं नूनं कृतान्तस्य गतिं ज्ञातुं कथंचन । लोकानां च भवान् यत्र शेषे पांसुषु रूषित:,“निश्चय ही काल और लोकोंकी गतिको जानना किसी प्रकार भी कठिन ही है, जिसके अधीन होकर आप धूलमें सने हुए पड़े हैं
duḥkhaṃ nūnaṃ kṛtāntasya gatiṃ jñātuṃ kathaṃcana | lokānāṃ ca bhavān yatra śeṣe pāṃsuṣu rūṣitaḥ ||
三阇耶说道：“这实在令人悲恸；而且无论如何，都极难洞悉死神（时间）所规定的轨迹与众生的归宿。正是在那力量之下，你如今怒意未消，身染尘土，倒卧于此，走到尽头。”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the inscrutability of fate/time (kṛtānta) and the destinies of beings: even the mighty are brought down, and human understanding cannot fully grasp the hidden course by which death and time govern outcomes.
Sañjaya, narrating the battlefield aftermath, laments that the listener now lies fallen—dust-covered and embittered—highlighting how the power of Time/Death has reduced a great person to a helpless end.