तद् इदं पार्षतेनेह महद् आधर्मिकं कृतम् ॥
अवज्ञाय च मां नूनं नृशंसेन दुरात्मना ॥
तस्यानुबन्धं स द्रष्टा धृष्टद्युम्नः सुदारुणम् ॥
अनार्यं परमं कृत्वा मिथ्यावादी च पाण्डवः ॥
यो ह्य् असौ छद्मनाचार्यं शस्त्रं संन्यासयत् तदा ॥
तस्याद्य धर्मराजस्य भूमिः पास्यति शोणितम् ॥
tad idaṃ pārṣateneha mahad ādharmikaṃ kṛtam ||
avajñāya ca māṃ nūnaṃ nṛśaṃsena durātmanā ||
tasyānubandhaṃ sa draṣṭā dhṛṣṭadyumnaḥ sudāruṇam ||
anāryaṃ paramaṃ kṛtvā mithyāvādī ca pāṇḍavaḥ ||
yo hy asau chadmanācāryaṃ śastraṃ saṃnyāsayat tadā ||
tasyādya dharmarājasya bhūmiḥ pāsyati śoṇitam ||
"This great unrighteousness has here been done by the son of Prishata — and having scorned me, surely, by the cruel, evil-souled one. Its consequence, most terrible, he shall see — Dhrishtadyumna, having committed a supreme ignoble deed; and the liar, the Pandava [Yudhishthira], who by deceit made the Acharya lay down his weapon then — of him, the so-called king of dharma, the earth shall now drink the blood."
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Ashvatthaman lays blame twofold: on the hand that struck (Dhrishtadyumna) and on the lie that disarmed (Yudhishthira). It is telling that his wrath also targets the "king of dharma": deceiving a righteous man is no lighter a sin than the sword that kills. The verse teaches that falsehood cloaked in the name of dharma draws an especially bitter reckoning; and one who turns trust to evil answers equally with the one who struck the blow — for the lie opened the door to death.