धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
कर्णदुर्योधनादीनां शकुनेः सौबलस्य च ॥
अपनीतं महत् तात तव चैव विशेषतः ॥
यद् आजानीत तां शक्तिम् एकघ्नीं सततं रणे ॥
अनिवार्याम् असह्यां च देवैर् अपि सवासवैः ॥
सा किमर्थं न कर्णेन प्रवृत्ते समरे पुरा ॥
न देवकीसुते मुक्ता फल्गुने वापि संजय ॥
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca
karṇaduryodhanādīnāṃ śakuneḥ saubalasya ca ||
apanītaṃ mahat tāta tava caiva viśeṣataḥ ||
yad ājānīta tāṃ śaktim ekaghnīṃ satataṃ raṇe ||
anivāryām asahyāṃ ca devair api savāsavaiḥ ||
sā kimarthaṃ na karṇena pravṛtte samare purā ||
na devakīsute muktā phalgune vāpi saṃjaya ||
"Of Karna, Duryodhana and the rest, of Shakuni, son of Subala, a great chance was missed, my son -- and of yours in particular. For you knew that spear, ever unfailing in battle, irresistible and unbearable even by the gods, with Vasava [Indra] among them. Why was it not loosed by Karna, when the battle had earlier begun, at the son of Devaki [Krishna], or at Phalguna, O Sanjaya?"
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Dhritarashtra returns again and again to the missed spear-cast: grief over the enemy's unrealized death will not let him go. It is telling that he blames "yours especially" -- Sanjaya -- as though a counselor could have turned aside fate. The verse teaches that an unquenched thirst for revenge stirs the mind with the same regret over and over; one who lives by a lost chance keeps reopening the wound, finding neither peace nor acceptance before what has already come to pass.