संजय उवाच
ते सेने शिबिरं गत्वा न्यविशेतां विशां पते ॥
यथाभागं यथान्यायं यथागुल्मं च सर्वशः ॥
कृत्वावहारं सैन्यानां द्रोणः परमदुर्मनाः ॥
दुर्योधनम् अभिप्रेक्ष्य सव्रीडम् इदम् अब्रवीत् ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
te sene śibiraṃ gatvā nyaviśetāṃ viśāṃ pate ||
yathābhāgaṃ yathānyāyaṃ yathāgulmaṃ ca sarvaśaḥ ||
kṛtvāvahāraṃ sainyānāṃ droṇaḥ paramadurmanāḥ ||
duryodhanam abhiprekṣya savrīḍam idam abravīt ||
Those two armies, having gone to their camps, settled down to rest, O lord of the people, everywhere by companies, by rank, and by sentry posts. Having accomplished the withdrawal of his troops, Drona, utterly downcast in spirit, turning his gaze upon Duryodhana, spoke this word with shame.
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Drona, "utterly downcast in spirit and abashed," addresses Duryodhana: the teacher is burdened that his given word about capturing Yudhishthira has not come true. In this shame lies a glimmer of conscience: he feels ashamed of an unkept promise, even though the promise itself served an unjust cause. It is telling that the troops disperse "by rank," while the plan about to be voiced has no rank in dharma. The verse teaches that even a man of honor is burdened by an unkept word, even when that word was given to a bad cause; that the outward order of an army testifies nothing to the rightness of its cause; and that shame over failure in an unjust scheme is conscience gone astray, yet not wholly extinguished.