Shloka 40
भीष्मस्य सेनापत्यप्रतिज्ञा तथा रथसंख्यावर्णनम् | Bhishma Accepts Command and Enumerates Kaurava Strength
शोचिष्यसे महाराज सपुत्रज्ञातिबान्धव: । इमं च क्लेशमस्माकं ह्ृष्टो यत् त्वं विकत्थसे
śociṣyase mahārāja saputra-jñāti-bāndhavaḥ | imaṃ ca kleśam asmākaṃ hṛṣṭo yat tvaṃ vikatthase, rājan |
三阇耶说道：“噢，大王！你必将悲恸——连同你的子嗣、宗亲与盟友一同悲恸。因为你如今以得意与夸耀所描绘的我等苦难，噢，王啊，终将反噬于你，成为你自身哀伤的缘由。”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Gloating over another’s suffering and speaking with arrogant pride invites reversal: the distress one celebrates can become the seed of one’s own downfall and grief. The verse warns against adharma rooted in vikattha (boastful arrogance) and highlights moral causality.
Sañjaya addresses the king and foretells that the one who is currently exulting and boasting about the Pandavas’ hardship will soon be overwhelmed by sorrow along with his sons and kin—an ominous prediction of the consequences leading into the Kurukṣetra conflict.