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धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
तेष्व् एवं संनिवृत्तेषु प्रत्युद्यातेषु भागशः ॥
कथं युयुधिरे पार्था मामकाश् च तरस्विनः ॥
किम् अर्जुनश् चाप्य् अकरोत् संशप्तकबलं प्रति ॥
संशप्तका वा पार्थस्य किम् अकुर्वत संजय ॥
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca
teṣv evaṃ saṃnivṛtteṣu pratyudyāteṣu bhāgaśaḥ ||
kathaṃ yuyudhire pārthā māmakāś ca tarasvinaḥ ||
kim arjunaś cāpy akarot saṃśaptakabalaṃ prati ||
saṃśaptakā vā pārthasya kim akurvata saṃjaya ||
"When those mighty [warriors] thus turned to battle, advancing to meet each other separately, how did the Pandavas and my [men] fight? And what did Arjuna accomplish, moreover, against the host of the Samshaptakas, and what did the Samshaptakas do against Partha, O Sanjaya?"
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Dhritarashtra again thirsts for news, and again he asks first of all about Arjuna — the thought of him will not release the blind king. It is telling that his question is two-sided: what Arjuna did to the Samshaptakas, and what they did to him — he wishes to know both sides, not only the harm dealt but the resistance met. The verse teaches that a mind tormented by anxiety returns again and again to the same fear, seeking news of it over and over; that honest curiosity wants to know the matter from both sides, not merely what it wishes to hear; and that in this persistent questioning about Arjuna there shows through an admission: the outcome of everything rests on the one most feared — and so the mind turns to him again and again.