कथं च युद्धं भूयो ऽभूत् तयोः प्राणदुरोदरे ॥
अत्र मन्ये समायत्तो जयो वाजय एव वा ॥
कर्णं प्राप्य रणे सूत मम पुत्रः सुयोधनः ॥
जेतुम् उत्सहते पार्थान् सगोविन्दान् ससात्वतान् ॥
श्रुत्वा तु निर्जितं कर्णम् असकृद् भीमकर्मणा ॥
भीमसेनेन समरे मोह आविशतीव माम् ॥
विनष्टान् कौरवान् मन्ये मम पुत्रस्य दुर्नयैः ॥
न हि कर्णो महेष्वासान् पार्थाञ् ज्येष्यति संजय ॥
kathaṃ ca yuddhaṃ bhūyo 'bhūt tayoḥ prāṇadurodare ||
atra manye samāyatto jayo vājaya eva vā ||
karṇaṃ prāpya raṇe sūta mama putraḥ suyodhanaḥ ||
jetum utsahate pārthān sagovindān sasātvatān ||
śrutvā tu nirjitaṃ karṇam asakṛd bhīmakarmaṇā ||
bhīmasenena samare moha āviśatīva mām ||
vinaṣṭān kauravān manye mama putrasya durnayaiḥ ||
na hi karṇo maheṣvāsān pārthāñ jyeṣyati saṃjaya ||
"And how did battle break out again between those two, with life itself at stake? Here, I think, victory or defeat is staked. Having encountered Karna in battle, O suta, my son Suyodhana dares to conquer the Parthas together with Govinda and the Satvatas. Yet hearing that Karna has been defeated more than once in battle by Bhimasena, whose deeds are terrible, a kind of delusion seems to seize me. I consider the Kauravas as good as destroyed by the misdeeds of my son; for Karna will not overcome the Parthas, those great archers, O Sanjaya."
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The blind king himself sees that his son's reliance on Karna is vain: "Karna will not overcome the Parthas." It is significant that he names the root of the calamity — "the misdeeds of my son," durnayāḥ: the ruin of the Kauravas grows not from weak weapons but from the wrongness of the cause. The verse teaches that sober insight, arriving too late and unbacked by the will to check evil, only multiplies grief without turning aside fate.