त्वया तु पाण्डवेयेषु निहतेषु महामृधे ॥
दुर्योधनम् अनुज्ञाप्य वनं यास्यामि कौरव ॥
पाण्डवैर् वा हते भीष्मे त्वयि स्वर्गम् उपेयुषि ॥
हन्तास्म्य् एकरथेनैव कृत्स्नान् यान् मन्यसे रथान् ॥
एवम् उक्त्वा महाराज दशाहानि महायशाः ॥
नायुध्यत ततः कर्णः पुत्रस्य तव संमते ॥
tvayā tu pāṇḍaveyeṣu nihateṣu mahāmṛdhe ||
duryodhanam anujñāpya vanaṃ yāsyāmi kaurava ||
pāṇḍavair vā hate bhīṣme tvayi svargam upeyuṣi ||
hantāsmy ekarathenaiva kṛtsnān yān manyase rathān ||
evam uktvā mahārāja daśāhāni mahāyaśāḥ ||
nāyudhyata tataḥ karṇaḥ putrasya tava saṃmate ||
"[Only] when the Pandavas have been slain by you in the great battle will I, having asked leave of Duryodhana, withdraw into the forest, O Kaurava. Or, if Bhishma is slain by the Pandavas [and] you ascend to heaven — I alone, with my own one chariot, shall slay all those whom you deem [great] chariot-warriors." Having said this, O great king, the greatly renowned Karna did not fight for ten days — with the consent of your son.
fca72820866f · 发布于 2026年7月19日 14:46:26 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
Karna's vow is double-edged — he will not enter the fight either while the grandsire lives or before his death: pride has found for itself an excuse that sounds plausible in words. But behind the bold boast — 'I alone shall slay them all' — lies the same trouble: reliance on one's own strength, not on dharma. It is telling that Duryodhana agrees: the master of an unrighteous cause is glad of any pretext, so long as it feeds the rivalry among his mightiest men. The verse teaches that a vow born of wounded pride robs the army of its valor at the very hour of need; and that a boastful hope placed in a single arm is already the seed of defeat, for the outcome of battle is decided not by a mortal's boasting but by the rightness of the cause and the will from above.