Shloka 11
Śoka-śamana: Kṛṣṇa’s Consolation and Nārada’s Exempla to Sṛñjaya
Chapter 29
संग्राममें शोभा पानेवाले वे सभी शूरवीर शत्रुका सामना करते हुए पराजित हुए हैं। उनमेंसे कोई भी पीठपर चोट खाकर या भागता हुआ नहीं मारा गया है ।।
sarve tyaktvātmanāḥ prāṇān yuddhvā vīrā mahāmṛdhe | śastrapūtā divaṃ prāptā na tān śocitum arhasi ||
风神伐由说道：“那些在战场上增辉的英雄，皆是迎敌而战而倒；其中无人背受创伤而死，也无人逃遁而亡。诸勇士在大决战中奋战，舍弃性命；以兵刃与武士之职为净，已登天界。故汝不当为他们悲泣。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Grief is inappropriate for warriors who died facing the enemy in righteous combat: by fulfilling kṣatriya-dharma and giving up life in battle, they are regarded as ‘purified’ and as attaining heaven; the listener is urged to replace lamentation with dharmic understanding.
Vāyudeva addresses a mourner after a great battle, emphasizing that the fallen heroes were not killed while fleeing or struck from behind; they fought directly, relinquished their lives in the thick of combat, and thus are portrayed as having reached the celestial realm.