यत् तदानामयज् जिष्णुर् भरतानाम् अपायिनाम् ॥
धनुः क्षेमकरं संख्ये द्विषताम् अश्रुवर्धनम् ॥
तद् एव तव पुत्रस्य राजन् दुर्द्यूतदेविनः ॥
कृते क्षत्रविनाशाय धनुर् आयच्छद् अर्जुनः ॥
तथा विक्षोभ्यमाणा सा पार्थेन तव वाहिनी ॥
व्यदीर्यत महाराज नौर् इवासाद्य पर्वतम् ॥
yat tadānāmayaj jiṣṇur bharatānām apāyinām ||
dhanuḥ kṣemakaraṃ saṃkhye dviṣatām aśruvardhanam ||
tad eva tava putrasya rājan durdyūtadevinaḥ ||
kṛte kṣatravināśāya dhanur āyacchad arjunaḥ ||
tathā vikṣobhyamāṇā sā pārthena tava vāhinī ||
vyadīryata mahārāja naur ivāsādya parvatam ||
That very bow which Jishnu then bent for the sake of the perishing Bharatas -- the bow that brings good in battle and multiplies tears for the foe -- that very bow, O sovereign, because of your son, that dishonest gambler, Arjuna now drew taut for the destruction of kshatriyas. Thus shaken by Partha, your army broke apart, O great sovereign, like a vessel striking upon a rock.
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Sanjaya names the one truly responsible for this universal ruin directly: "through the fault of your son, that dishonest gambler." Arjuna's bow, by its nature "bringing good," is turned into an instrument for destroying kshatriyas -- not out of malice, but out of the necessity into which the deceit at the dicing game plunged everyone. The image of a vessel shattered against a rock shows how fragile a great army is before a single unbending force. The verse teaches that the root of great calamities lies in a falsehood sown once: Duryodhana's dishonest game brings ruin upon a whole estate; that a weapon good by nature becomes an instrument of death when falsehood leaves no other path; and that the guilt for blood shed rests above all on the one who sowed injustice, not on the one compelled to stand against it.