ततो ऽब्रवीन् महाराज द्रुपदो बुद्धिमान् नृप ॥
लुब्धो ऽयं क्षत्रियान् हन्ति व्याघ्रः क्षुद्रमृगान् इव ॥
कृच्छ्रान् दुर्योधनो लोकान् पापः प्राप्स्यति दुर्मतिः ॥
यस्य लोभाद् विनिहताः समरे क्षत्रियर्षभाः ॥
शतशः शेरते भूमौ निकृत्ता गोवृषा इव ॥
रुधिरेण परीताङ्गाः श्वसृगालादनीकृताः ॥
एवम् उक्त्वा महाराज द्रुपदो ऽक्षौहिणीपतिः ॥
पुरस्कृत्य रणे पार्थान् द्रोणम् अभ्यद्रवद् द्रुतम् ॥
tato 'bravīn mahārāja drupado buddhimān nṛpa ||
lubdho 'yaṃ kṣatriyān hanti vyāghraḥ kṣudramṛgān iva ||
kṛcchrān duryodhano lokān pāpaḥ prāpsyati durmatiḥ ||
yasya lobhād vinihatāḥ samare kṣatriyarṣabhāḥ ||
śataśaḥ śerate bhūmau nikṛttā govṛṣā iva ||
rudhireṇa parītāṅgāḥ śvasṛgālādanīkṛtāḥ ||
evam uktvā mahārāja drupado 'kṣauhiṇīpatiḥ ||
puraskṛtya raṇe pārthān droṇam abhyadravad drutam ||
"This greedy man destroys the kshatriyas as a tiger does small beasts. Into grievous worlds shall Duryodhana, sinful and evil-minded, go — he by whose greed the bulls among kshatriyas have been slain in battle, and now lie by the hundreds upon the ground, like slaughtered bulls, their limbs drenched in blood, turned into food for dogs and jackals." Having spoken thus, O great king, Drupada, lord of an akshauhini, setting the Parthas in front in the battle, rushed swiftly upon Drona.
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Drupada perceives the root of the slaughter: "yasya lobhāt vinihatāḥ" — by Duryodhana's greed the bulls among kshatriyas have been slain, and "kṛcchrān lokān prāpsyati," the sinful one shall go to grievous worlds. It is telling that the warrior-sage lays the blame not on Drona who strikes, but on the greed that drove him. The verse teaches that the true culprit of bloodshed is the covetousness that kindled the war: the greed for whose sake hundreds perish brings upon its instigator the heaviest fate after death, for he himself must answer for blood shed by his own avarice.