धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
अतिभारम् अहं मन्ये सैन्धवे संजयाहितम् ॥
यद् एकः पाण्डवान् क्रुद्धान् पुत्रगृद्धीन् अवारयत् ॥
अत्यद्भुतम् इदं मन्ये बलं शौर्यं च सैन्धवे ॥
तद् अस्य ब्रूहि मे वीर्यं कर्म चाग्र्यं महात्मनः ॥
किं दत्तं हुतम् इष्टं वा सुतप्तम् अथ वा तपः ॥
सिन्धुराजेन येनैकः क्रुद्धान् पार्थान् अवारयत् ॥
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca
atibhāram ahaṃ manye saindhave saṃjayāhitam ||
yad ekaḥ pāṇḍavān kruddhān putragṛddhīn avārayat ||
atyadbhutam idaṃ manye balaṃ śauryaṃ ca saindhave ||
tad asya brūhi me vīryaṃ karma cāgryaṃ mahātmanaḥ ||
kiṃ dattaṃ hutam iṣṭaṃ vā sutaptam atha vā tapaḥ ||
sindhurājena yenaikaḥ kruddhān pārthān avārayat ||
'An excessive burden, I think, O Sanjaya, has been placed upon the Sindhu king — in that he alone held back the enraged Pandavas, who longed for [their] son. Marvelous, I think, are the strength and valor in the Sindhu king; tell me his valor and the supreme deed of that great-souled one. What was given as a gift, poured as an oblation, offered in sacrifice, or what austerity was zealously borne by the king of Sindhu, thanks to which he alone held back the enraged Parthas?'
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Dhritarashtra rightly perceives that what enabled Jayadratha to overcome the impossible was not something natural but something earned — a boon, the fruit of sacrifice or austerity. The wise understand: where strength exceeds nature, there the supernatural is at work. It is significant that the blind king seeks the cause of the wonder not in chance but in merit before the Supreme. The verse teaches that extraordinary feats often have their roots not in natural gifts but in the fruits of prior effort — sacrifice, vow, austerity; that the wise seek behind a visible wonder its hidden cause; and that even a fearsome force blocking the path of the righteous may turn out to be a boon obtained from the Supreme — so that its resolution rests only with the one who granted the gift, as we shall see in due course.