Karna Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

समान कौरव-सेना छिन्न-भिन्न हो गयी और विषाद करने लगी

English

"Sanjaya said, 'Meanwhile towards the northern part of the Pandava army, a loud uproar arose of cars and elephants and steeds and foot-soldiers as those were being massacred by Dandadhara. Turning the course of the car, but without stopping the steeds which were as fleet as Garuda or the wind, Keshava, addressing Arjuna, said, "The chief of the Magadhas, with his (foe-crushing) elephant is unrivalled in prowess. In training and might he is not inferior to Bhagadatta himself. Having slain him first, thou wilt then slay the samsaptakas. " At the conclusion of his words, Keshava bore Partha to the presence of Dandadhara. The chief of the Magadhas, peerless in handling the elephant-hook even as the headless planet Ketu (is peerless) among all the planets, was destroying the hostile army like a fierce comet destroying the whole earth. Riding on his foe-slaying and well-equipped elephant which looked like the danava with elephantine face and form, and whose roar resembled that of a congregated mass of clouds, Dandadhara was destroying with his shafts thousands of cars and steeds and elephants and men. The elephants also, treading upon cars with their feet, pressed down into the Earth a large number of men with their steeds and drivers. Many were the elephants, also, which that foremost of elephants, crushed and slew with his two forefeet and trunk. Indeed, the beast moved like the wheel of Death. Slaying men adorned with steel coats of mail, along with their horses and foot-soldiers, the chief of the Magadhas caused these to be pressed down into the earth, like thick reeds pressed down with crackling sounds, by means of that mighty and foremost of elephants belonging to him. Then Arjuna, riding on that foremost of cars, rushed quickly towards that prince of elephants in the midst of that host teeming with thousands of cars and steeds and elephants, and resounding with the beat and blare of innumerable cymbals and drums and conchs and uproarious with the clatter of car-wheels, the twang of bow-strings, and the sound of palms. Even Dandadhara pierced Arjuna with a dozen foremost of shafts and Janardana with sixteen and each of the steeds with three, and then uttered a loud shout and laughed repeatedly. Then Partha, with a number of broad-headed shafts, cut off the bow of his antagonist with its string and arrow fixed thereon, as also his well-decked standard, and then the guides of his beast and the footmen that protected the animal. At this, the lord of Girivraja became filled with rage. Desirous of agitating Janardana with that tusker of his, whose temples had split from excitement, and which resembled a mass of clouds and was endued with the speed of the wind, Dandadhara struck Dhananjaya with many lances. The son of Pandu then, with three razor-headed arrows, cut off, almost at the same instant of time, the two arms each looking like the trunk of an elephant, and then the head, resembling the full Moon, of his foe. Then Arjuna struck the elephant of this antagonist with hundreds of arrows. Covered with the gold-decked arrows of Partha, that elephant equipped with golden armour looked as resplendent as a mountain in the night with its herbs and trees blazing in a conflagration. Afflicted with the pain and roaring like a mass of clouds, and exceedingly weakened, the elephant crying and wandering and running with tottering steps, fell down with the guide on its neck, like a mountain summit riven by thunder. Upon the fall of his brother in battle, Danda advanced against Indra's younger brother and Dhananjaya, desirous of slaying them, on his tusker white as snow and adorned with gold and looking like a Himalayan summit. Danda struck Janardana with three whetted lances bright as the rays of the sun, and Arjuna with five, and

हिन्दी अर्थ

निगृहा तं रथं तस्य योधास्ते तु सहस्रश: अपरे जगहुश्वैव केशवस्य महाभुजी

English

Where the Pandava slaughtered the Samshaptakas, and likewise the Kosalas and the Narayana force, O king—

हिन्दी अर्थ

भारी अस्त्र-वृष्टिका निवारण करके उन योद्धाओंका संहार आरम्भ कर दिया

English

the Samshaptakas, eager for victory and in great rage, rained a shower of arrows on Partha's head from every side in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और शूरवीरोंका हर्ष बढ़ानेवाला था

English

The lord swiftly bore that shower, O king, and entered the battle, slaying, best of chariot-warriors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृंजयोंको आच्छादित कर दिया शिखण्डिनं रणे क्रुद्धो विव्याध दशभि: शरै:

English

Having checked the chariot-force with stone-whetted heron-feathered arrows, Partha reached the great chariot-warrior Susharma in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृपं विव्याध कुपितं कड्कपत्रैरजिह्यगैः

English

The best of chariot-warriors rained showers of arrows on him, and the Samshaptakas too stood in the battle against Partha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारथि एवं रथसे रहित कर दिया खडगं चर्म तथा गृहा सत्वरं ब्राह्म॒णं ययौ

English

Then Susharma, piercing Partha with nine swift arrows and Janardana with three, struck him on the right arm, and with another broad-headed arrow pierced the standard, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चैष्टस्तद् रणे राजन् शिखण्डी समतिष्ठत

English

That excellent monkey, the great one made by Vishvakarma, uttered a great cry, frightening, and roared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्युद्ययौ कृप॑ तूर्ण धृष्टद्युम्नो महारथ: तुरंत ही उनका सामना करनेके लिये आये

English

Hearing the monkey's roar, your army, terrified, took on great fear and became motionless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे द्विपञ्चाशत्तमो5ध्याय: गाण्डीवस्य महाघोष: श्रूयते युधि मारिष

English

Then that army shone, standing motionless, O king, like the Chaitraratha forest strewn with flowers of many kinds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारायणी-सेनाका संहार कर रहे थे

English

Regaining consciousness, the warriors, best of the Kurus, showered Arjuna with arrows as clouds on a mountain, and all surrounded the Pandava's great chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपातयन् पार्थमूर्थश्नि जयगृद्धा: प्रमन्‍्यव: मस्तकपर चारों ओरसे बाणोंकी वर्षा आरम्भ कर दी

English

They quickly held the horses, wheels and poles of the chariot by force, O Bharata, and roared lion-roars.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यगाहत रणे पार्थो विनिघ्नन् रथिनां वरान्

English

Others seized Keshava's mighty arms, and others, O great king, joyfully seized Partha on his chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्तिशाली अर्जुन रणभूमिमें विचरने लगे आससाद ततः पार्थ: सुशर्माणं वरायुधम्

English

Then Keshava, shaking his arms at the head of the battle, threw them all down like a vicious elephant its fellow elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा संशप्तकाश्रैव पार्थ बाणै: समार्पयन्

English

Then Partha, enraged in battle and surrounded by those great chariot-warriors, seeing his chariot held and Keshava attacked, felled many chariot-borne and foot-soldiers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स वानरवरो राजन् विश्वकर्मकृतो महान् कपेस्तु निनदं श्रुत्वा संत्रस्ता तव वाहिनी

English

He dislodged the warriors who stood close with arrows in the battle by close fighters, and said this to Keshava:

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः सा शुशुभे सेना निश्चेष्ठावस्थिता नूप

English

"See, Krishna, mighty-armed, the Samshaptaka hosts doing dreadful deeds and being slain by me in thousands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चैत्ररथ नामक वनके समान शोभा पाने लगी परिवद्रुस्तत: सर्वे पाण्डवस्य महारथम्

English

This dreadful binding of the chariot—there is no one on earth, O bull of the Yadus, who could bear it other than I."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते हयान् रथचक्रे च रथेषां चापि मारिष

English

Having said this, Bibhatsu blew Devadatta, and Krishna too blew Panchajanya, as if filling heaven and earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथपर बैठे हुए अर्जुनको भी प्रसन्नतापूर्वक पकड़ लिया

English

Hearing that conch-sound, the Samshaptaka host trembled, O great king, and was greatly terrified.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केशवस्तु ततो बाहू विधुन्चन् रणमूर्थनि रथारूढांस्तु सुबहून् पदातींश्वाप्पपातयत्

English

Then the Pandava, slayer of heroes, O great king, repeatedly invoking the Naga weapon, made the foot-binding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छादयामास समरे केशवं चेदमब्रवीत्

English

Those at whom Partha aimed the foot-binding in the battle were bound by the foot-binding of the great-souled Pandava and became motionless, O king, as if made of stone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यः सहेत पुमॉल्लोके मदन्यो यदुपुड्भव भयानक रथबन्ध (रथकी पकड़ अथवा रथोंके घेरे)-का सामना कर सके”

English

The son of Pandu then slew the motionless warriors, as the moon in battle slew the daityas at the slaying of Taraka long ago.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और आकाशको गुँजाते हुए-से पांचजन्य नामक शंखकी ध्वनि फैलायी

English

Being slain in the battle, they released that excellent chariot and began to cast away all their weapons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जोर-जोरसे भागने लगी निश्चेशश्चाभवन् राजन्नश्मसारमया इव

English

Then, O king of kings, seeing his army seized, Susharma, the great chariot-warrior, swiftly brought forth the Suparna weapon.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथेन्द्र: समरे हैत्यांस्तारकस्य वधे पुरा

English

Then Suparnas (Garudas) fell upon them, devouring serpents, and the serpents fled on seeing those sky-ranging birds, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आयुधानि च सर्वाणि विस्रष्टमुपचक्रमु: गाँठवाले बाणोंद्वारा उनका वध करने लगे

English

That army, freed from the foot-binding, O lord of men, shone like the sun freed from a mass of clouds, scorching creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यानुद्दिश्य रणे पार्थ: पादबन्धं चकार ह

English

Freed, those warriors poured masses of arrows and masses of weapons on Phalguna's chariot, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पक्षियोंको प्रकट हुआ देख वे सारे नाग भाग चले तां महास्त्रमयीं वृष्टिं संछिद्य शरवृष्टिभि:

English

Cutting that rain of great weapons with showers of arrows, the son of Vasava, slayer of heroes, stood facing the warriors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुशर्मा तु ततो राजन् बाणेनानतपर्वणा पहुँचाकर अन्य तीन बाणोंद्वारा भी उन्हें घायल कर दिया

English

Then Susharma, O king, with a bent-jointed arrow, pierced Arjuna in the heart and with three more arrows; deeply pierced, he sat down on his chariot-seat, pained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स गाढविद्धो व्यथितो रथोपस्थ उपाविशत्

English

Regaining consciousness, the white-horsed one with Krishna as charioteer, of immeasurable spirit, swiftly brought forth Indra's weapon; then thousands of arrows were produced, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिलभ्य तत: संज्ञां श्वेताश्वः कृष्णसारथि: संशप्तकगणानां च गोपालानां च भारत

English

They were seen in all directions, killing elephants, horses and chariots in battle, O king, with weapons by the hundred thousand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यतां तत्र वीराणामहन्यत बल॑ तव

English

As the army was being slain, great fear entered the Samshaptaka hosts and the Gopalas, O Bharata; there was no man there who fought Arjuna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वीरोंके देखते-देखते आपकी सेनाका वध होने लगा अयुतं तत्र योधानां हत्वा पाण्डुसुतो रणे

English

In the sight of heroes there, the great army was slain; they saw it being slain and stood motionless in their valour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चतुर्दश सहस्राणि यानि शिष्टानि भारत

English

Having slain ten thousand warriors there in battle, the son of Pandu shone in battle, O king, like a smokeless blazing fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः संशप्तका भूय: परिवद्रर्थनंजयम् शूरेण बलिना सार्ध पाण्डवेन किरीटिना

English

Fourteen thousand remained, O Bharata, and ten thousand chariots and three thousand elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे त्रिपठचाशत्तमो5ध्याय:

English

Then the Samshaptakas surrounded Dhananjaya again, resolved to die or to win.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समुज्जहु: सम वेगेन भिन्नां नावमिवार्णवे भीरूणां त्रासजननं शूराणां हर्षवर्धनम्

English

A great battle took place there, O lord of men, between your men and the strong hero, the Pandava Kiritin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिजग्राह वेगेन कृतवर्मा महारथ:

English

uttered a loud shout. The son of Pandu then uttering a loud shout cut off the two arms of Danda. Cut off by means of razor-headed shafts, those two arms, smeared with sandal-paste, adorned with angadas, and with lances in grasp, as they fell from the elephant' s back at the same instant of time, looked resplendent like a couple of large snakes of great beauty falling down from a mountain summit. Cut off with a crescent-shaped arrow by the diadem-decked (Partha), the head also of Danda fell down on the Earth from the elephant's back, and covered with blood it looked resplendent as it lay like the sun dropped from the Asta mountain towards the western quarter. Then Partha pierced with many excellent arrows bright as the rays of the sun that elephant of his foe, resembling a mass of white clouds whereupon it fell down with a noise like a Himalayan summit riven with thunder. Then other huge elephants capable of winning victory and resembling the two already slain, were cut off by Savyasaci, in that battle, even as the two (belonging to Danda and Dandadhara) had been cut off. At this the vast hostile force broke. Then elephants and cars and steeds and men, in dense throngs, clashed against one another and fell down on the field. Tottering, they violently struck one another and fell down deprived of life. Then his soldiers, encompassing Arjuna like the celestials encompassing Purandara, began to say, "O hero, that foe of whom we had been frightened like creatures at the sight of Death himself, hath by good luck been slain by thee. If thou hadst not protected from that fear those people that were so deeply afflicted by mighty foes, then by this time our foes would have felt that delight which we now feel at their death, O slayer of enemies." Hearing these and other words uttered by friends and allies, Arjuna, with a cheerful heart, worshipped those men, each according to his deserts, and proceeded once more against the samsaptakas. ' "

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूमिकम्पे यथा वृक्षश्नचाल कम्पितो भूशम् सोष्णीषं सशिरस्त्राणं क्षुरप्रेण त्वपातयद्

English

Seeing the army sinking, tormented by fear of the son of Pandu, wishing to lift it swiftly like a broken ship in the sea,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरैरनेकसाहसैहार्दिक्यो5वारयद् युधि

English

then the battle became exceedingly great for a moment, O Bharata, striking fear into the timid and increasing the joy of the brave.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथेतराणि सैन्यानि न सम चक्कु: पराक्रमम् पराक्रम न कर सके

English

The Srinjayas cut down in the battle the showers of arrows loosed by Kripa, like flights of locusts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाराचोंद्वारा उसे बींध डाला श्रुतकर्मा त्रिभि्बाणि: श्रुतकीर्तिश्व सप्तभि:

English

Then Shikhandin, enraged, swiftly went to Gautama (Kripa), raining showers of arrows on the Brahmana on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्ये च बहव: शूरा विव्यधुस्तं समन्‍्तत:

English

Kripa, skilled in great weapons, having warded off that shower of arrows, enraged, pierced Shikhandin in the battle with ten arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सात्यकिं पज्चविंशत्या प्रत्यविध्यच्छिलीमुखै: अथान्यद् धनुरादाय श्रुतिकीर्तिमहारथ:

English

Then the angered Shikhandin pierced Kripa hard in the battle with seven straight heron-feathered arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः पुनरमेयात्मा धर्मराजस्य कार्मुकम्

English

Then Kripa, deeply pierced by sharp arrows, that great chariot-warrior, best of the twice-born, made the Parshata's chariot horseless and charioteerless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छिन्नधन्वा ततो द्रौणि: शक्‍्त्या शक्तिमतां वर: अथान्यद् धनुरादाय द्रोणपुत्र: प्रतापवान्

English

Leaping from the chariot whose horses were slain, the great chariot-warrior took shield and sword and quickly went to the Brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सपुत्रं सहसैन्यं च द्रोणपुत्रो न्‍्यवारयत् द्रोणपुत्र अश्वत्थामाने रोका

English

As he suddenly came, he covered him with straight-jointed arrows in the battle; it was wondrous.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्णो वैकर्तनो युद्धे वारयामास भारत

English

We saw there a marvel like stones floating: that Shikhandin stood motionless in the battle, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राहिणोत् त्वरया युक्तो दिधक्षुरिव मारिष व्यधमत् सायकैस्तूर्ण तत उच्चुक्रुशुर्जना:

English

Seeing Shikhandin covered by Kripa, the great chariot-warrior Dhrishtadyumna, best of kings, swiftly advanced against Kripa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृपस्य वशमापत्नो मृत्योरास्यमिवातुर:

English

As Dhrishtadyumna went towards Sharadvata's chariot, the great chariot-warrior Kritavarman quickly confronted him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्रकेतुसुतो राजन् सुकेतुस्त्वरितो ययौ पुत्र महाबली सुकेतु उसकी सहायताके लिये तुरंत आगे बढ़ा

English

As Yudhishthira advanced towards Sharadvata's chariot with his sons and troops, Drona's son held him back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्यापतदमेयात्मा गौतमस्य रथं प्रति

English

Your son confronted the two great chariot-warriors Nakula and Sahadeva in haste, holding them back with showers of arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपयातस्ततस्तूर्ण शिखण्डी राजसत्तम विद्ध्वा विव्याध सप्तत्या पुनश्चैनं त्रिभि: शरै:

English

Karna Vaikartana in the battle held back Bhimasena, the Karushas, Kekayas and Srinjayas, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्हें घायल कर दिया

English

Then Kripa Sharadvata, in haste, as if wishing to burn him, sent arrows at Shikhandin in the battle, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारथिं च शरेणास्य भृशं मर्मस्वताडयत् सारथिके मर्मस्थानोंमें गहरी चोट पहुँचायी

English

He cut those arrows, sent by him, adorned with gold, from every side with his sword, brandishing and whirling it again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुकेतु त्रिंशता बाणै: सर्वमर्मस्वताडयत्

English

Then Gautama quickly shattered the Parshata's shield marked with a hundred moons with arrows, and the people cried out.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पगड़ी और शिरस्त्राणसहित मस्तकको उसकी काँपती हुई कायासे काट गिराया

English

Shieldless, O great king, with sword in hand, he ran forward, falling under Kripa's power like a sick man into the mouth of death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततोस्य कायो वसुधां पश्चात् प्रापतदच्युत बाद सुकेतुका धड़ भी धराशायी हो गया

English

Seeing the mighty one tormented, swallowed up by Sharadvata's arrows, Suketu, son of Chitraketu, quickly went there, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गौतम समरे त्यक्त्वा दुद्रुवुस्ते दिशो दश

English

Scattering many sharp arrows at the Brahmana in the battle, the one of immeasurable spirit attacked Gautama's chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृपाचार्यको छोड़कर दसों दिशाओंकी ओर भाग निकले कृतवर्मब्रिवीद्धृष्टस्तिष्ठ तिछठेति भारत

English

Seeing that Brahmana, practised in vows, irresistible in battle, Shikhandin, best of kings, quickly retreated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साथ कहा--'खड़ा रह, खड़ा रह”

English

Then Suketu, O king, piercing Gautama with nine arrows, again pierced him with seventy and again with three.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आमिषार्थे यथा युद्ध श्येनयो: क्रुद्धयोर्नुप रणक्षेत्रमें कृतवर्मा और धृष्टद्युम्नका घोर युद्ध होने लगा

English

Then, O revered one, he cut his bow with its arrow once more and struck his charioteer hard in a vital part with an arrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आजपघानोरसि क्रुद्ध: पीडयन् हृदिकात्मजम्

English

Gautama, enraged, taking a new firm bow, struck Suketu in all his vital parts with thirty arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पार्षत॑ सरथं साशथ्वंं छादयामास सायकै: और रथसहित धृष्टद्युम्मको आच्छादित कर दिया

English

With all his limbs bewildered, he swayed on the best of chariots, like a tree shaken hard in an earthquake.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मेघैरिव परिच्छन्नो भास्करो जलधारिभि:

English

As he swayed, Kripa struck off with a razor-arrow from his body his head with blazing earrings, turban and helmet.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यरोचत रणे राजनू् धृष्टद्युम्न: कृतव्रण: कृतवर्माणमासाद्य व्यसृजत् पृतनापति:

English

That head fell to the ground like meat carried off by a hawk; afterwards his body, fallen, reached the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हजार बाण मारकर रोक दिया कौरवान् समरे तूर्ण वारयामास सायकै:

English

When he was slain, O great king, his followers, terrified, abandoned Gautama in the battle and fled in all ten directions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समरांगणमें समस्त कौरवोंको तुरंत आगे बढ़नेसे रोक दिया

English

The mighty Kritavarman, having held back Dhrishtadyumna in the battle, said boldly to the Parshata, "Stand, stand!"

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिंहनादरवं कृत्वा ततो युद्धमवर्तत इति श्रीमहा भारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे चतुष्पठ्चाशत्तमो5ध्याय:

English

A tumultuous battle took place between the Vrishni and the Parshata in the fight, like the battle of two hawks or vultures over meat, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्रौपदेयैस्तथा शूरैरभ्यवर्तत हृष्टवत्

English

Dhrishtadyumna, enraged, in battle struck Hardikya in the chest with nine arrows, tormenting the son of Hridika.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देखकर अअभ्रत्थामा बड़े हर्षके साथ उनका सामना करनेके लिये गया दर्शयन् विविधान् मार्गान् शिक्षाश्न॒ लघुहस्तवत्

English

Kritavarman, firmly struck in battle by the Parshata, covered the Parshata with his chariot and horses with arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युधिष्ठिरं च समरे परिवार्य महास्त्रवित्

English

Covered with his chariot, O king, Dhrishtadyumna was not seen, like the sun hidden by clouds at the coming of the rains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बाणभूतमभूत् सर्वमायोधनशिरो महत् युद्धका वह सारा विशाल मैदान बाणमय हो रहा था

English

Shaking off that mass of arrows with gold-adorned arrows, Dhrishtadyumna shone in the battle, O king, though wounded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुशुभे भरतश्रेष्ठ वितानमिव घिछितम्

English

Then the Parshata, enraged, reaching Kritavarman, the army's leader, loosed a most dreadful shower of weapons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्रच्छायेव संजज्ञे बाणरुद्धे नभस्तले हुए आकाशमें मेघोंकी छाया-सी बन गयी थी

English

That uninterrupted shower of weapons, suddenly falling, Hardikya destroyed in the battle with many thousands of arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न सम सम्पतते भूतं किंचिदेवान्तरिक्षगम्

English

Seeing that hard-to-cross shower of weapons torn apart in the battle, the Parshata approached Kritavarman and held him back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उठाकर देख भी न सके

English

He swiftly sent his charioteer to Yama's abode with a sharp-edged broad-headed arrow, and he fell dead from the chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वध्यमाने तत: सैन्ये द्रौपदेया महारथा: त्यक्त्वा मृत्युभयं घोरं द्रौणायनिमुपाद्रवन्

English

Dhrishtadyumna, the strong one, having conquered the great chariot-warrior foe, quickly held back the Kauravas in the battle with arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनर्विव्याध नाराचै: सप्तभि: स्वर्णभूषितै:

English

Then your warriors ran at Dhrishtadyumna, raising lion-roars, and the battle began.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वर्षद्वारा आच्छादित कर दिया

English

"Sanjaya said, 'Wheeling round, like the planet Mercury in the curvature of its orbit, Jishnu (Arjuna) once more slew large number of the samsaptakas. Afflicted with the shafts of Partha, O king, men, steeds, and elephants, O Bharata, wavered and wondered and lost colour and fell down and died. Many foremost of animals tied to yokes and drivers and standards, and bows, and shafts and hands and weapons in grasp, and arms, and heads, of heroic foes fighting with him, the son of Pandu cut off in that battle, with arrows, some of which were broad-headed, some equipped with heads like razors, some crescent-shaped, and some furnished with heads like the calf's tooth. Like bulls fighting with a bull for the sake of a cow in season, brave warriors by hundreds and thousands closed upon Arjuna. The battle that took place between them and him made the hair to stand on end like the encounter between the Daityas and Indra, the wielder of the thunderbolt on the occasion of the conquest of the three worlds. Then the son of Ugrayudha pierced Partha with three shafts resembling three venomous snakes. Partha, however, cut off from his enemy's trunk the latter' s head. Then those warriors, filled with rage, covered Arjuna from every side with diverse kinds of weapons like the clouds urged by the Maruts shrouding Himavat at the close of summer. Checking with his own weapons those of his foes on every side, Arjuna slew a large number of his enemies with well-shot shafts. With his arrows Arjuna then cut off the Trivenus, the steeds, the drivers, and the parshni drivers of many cars, and displaced the weapons and quivers of many, and deprived many of their wheels and standards, and broke the cords, the traces and the axles of many, and destroyed the bottoms and yokes of others, and caused all the equipment of many to fall from their places. Those cars, thus smashed and injured by Arjuna in large numbers, looked like the luxurious mansions of the rich destroyed by fire, wind, and rain. Elephants, their vitals pierced with shafts resembling thunderbolts in impetuosity, fell down like mansions on mountain-tops overthrown by blasts of lightning. Large numbers of steeds with their riders, struck by Arjuna, fell down on the Earth, their tongues and entrails pressed out, themselves deprived of strength and bathed in blood, and presenting an awful sight. Men and steeds and elephants, pierced by Savyasaci (Arjuna) with his shafts, wondered and tottered and fell down and uttered cries of pain and looked pale, O sire. Like Mahendra smiting down the danavas, Partha smote down large numbers of his foes, by means of shafts whetted on stone and resembling the thunder of poison in deadliness. Brave warriors, cased in costly coats of mail and decked with ornaments and armed with diverse kinds of weapons, lay on the field, with their cars and standards, slain by Partha. Vanquished (and deprived of life) persons of righteous deeds, possessed of noble birth and great knowledge, proceeded to heaven in consequence of those glorious deeds of theirs while their bodies only lay on Earth. Then the chief, belonging to thy army, of various realms, filled with wrath and accompanied by their followers, rushed against Arjuna, that foremost of car- warriors. Warriors borne on their cars and steeds and elephants, and foot-soldiers also, all desirous of slaying (Arjuna), rushed towards him, shooting diverse weapons with great speed. Then Arjuna like wind, by means of keen shafts, destroyed that thick shower of weapons dropped by those warriors constituting a mass of congregated clouds. People then beheld Arjuna crossing that raftless ocean constituted by steeds and foot-soldiers and elephants and cars, and having mighty weapons for its waves,

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रययौ तावकं सैन्यं युक्त: क्रूराय कर्मणे इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि पार्थापयाने पञडचपज्चाशत्तमो5 ध्याय:

English

Scattering fierce masses of golden-feathered arrows whetted on stone, showing paths of many kinds for practice, quick-handed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

सायकाश्रैव दृश्यन्ते निश्चरन्त: समन्ततः

English

he filled the sky with arrows consecrated with divine weapon-mantras, and the knower of weapons surrounded Yudhishthira in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही दस बाणोंका प्रहार किया

English

Covered by Drona's son's arrows, nothing could be distinguished; the whole battlefield head became as if made of arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य ते5शो भयन् वक्‍त्र॑ कर्मारपरिमार्जिता: तदपास्य थनुश्कछिन्नं धृष्टद्युम्नो महामना:

English

That net of arrows in the sky, adorned with a net of gold, shone, O best of the Bharatas, like a canopy spread out.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो दुर्योधनस्याश्वान् हत्वा सूतं च पञठचभि:

English

Covered by that shining net of arrows, O king, a shade as of clouds arose, the sky blocked by arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथं सोपस्करं छत्रं शक्ति खड्गं गदां ध्वजम् चिह्नयुक्त विचित्र, मणिमय एवं सुन्दर ध्वज कटकर धराशायी हो गया है

English

There, in that sky made of arrows, we saw the wonder that nothing fell to the ground, seeing Drona's son's prowess.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्योधन तु विरथं छिन्नवर्मायुधं रणे

English

Seeing the dexterity of Drona's son, the great chariot-warriors there were astonished, O great king, and all the kings could not look at him, as at the blazing sun.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्योधनकी उसके सगे भाई सब ओरसे रक्षा करने लगे कर्णस्तु सात्यकिं जित्वा राजगृद्धी महाबल:

English

Satyaki, striving, and the Pandava king of dharma and the other armies did not display valour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्याश्चाः प्रद्रुता: संख्ये पतिते रथसारथौ युधिष्ठिरपुरोगास्तु द्रौणिं शस्त्रभृतां वरम्

English

While the army was being slain, the sons of Draupadi, great chariot-warriors, Satyaki, the king of dharma and the Panchalas together, giving up the terrible fear of death, rushed at Drona's son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आगच्छमानांस्तान् दृष्टवा क्रुद्धसरूपान् परंतप:

English

Satyaki, piercing Drona's son with twenty-five stone-faced arrows, pierced him again with seven gold-adorned iron arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत: शरशतज्वाल: सेनाकक्षं महारथ: काठ एवं घास-फूँसको जलाना आरम्भ किया

English

Yudhishthira with seventy-three, Pratívindhya with seven, Shrutakarman with three arrows, Shrutakirti with seven,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तद् बल॑ पाण्डुपुत्रस्य द्रोणपुत्रप्रतापितम्

English

Sutasoma with nine, Shatanika with seven, and many other brave ones pierced him on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्रोणपुत्रके द्वारा संतप्त की हुई पाण्डव-सेनामें हलचल मच गयी दृष्टवा चैव महाराज द्रोणपुत्रपराक्रमम्

English

Greatly enraged, then, O king, sighing like a venomous serpent, he pierced Satyaki with twenty-five stone-whetted arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युधिष्ठिरस्तु त्वरितो द्रोणशिष्यो महारथ:

English

He pierced Shrutakirti with nine, Sutasoma with five, Shrutakarman with eight, Pratívindhya with three arrows, Shatanika with nine, and the son of Dharma with seven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणेन तप: कार्य दानमध्ययनं तथा है; अतः तुम नाममात्रके ब्राह्मण हो

English

Then he struck the other heroes with two each, and cut Shrutakirti's bow with sharp arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मिषतस्ते महाबाहो युधि जेष्यामि कौरवान्

English

Then the great chariot-warrior Shrutakirti, taking another bow, pierced Drona's son with three sharp arrows and again with others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमुक्तो महाराज द्रोणपुत्र: स्मयन्निव अनुक्त्वा च तत: किंचिच्छरवर्षेण पाण्डवम्

English

Then Drona's son, O great king, O Bharata, covered that army and the kings on every side with showers of arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स च्छाद्यमानस्तु तदा द्रोणपुत्रेण मारिष

English

Then again the immeasurable-souled Drona's son, laughing, cut the king of dharma's bow and pierced him with three arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्णो जघान समरे भीमसेनस्य पश्यत:

English

Then the son of Dharma, O king, taking another great bow, pierced Drona's son with seventy and tormented his arms and chest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रययौ कौरवं सैन्यं कक्षमग्निरिव ज्वलन् उसी प्रकार कौरव-सेनाको दग्ध करनेके लिये उसपर आक्रमण किया

English

Satyaki, enraged, cut Drona's son's bow as he struck in battle with a sharp half-moon arrow and roared hard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृञ्जयांश्व महेष्वासानू निजघान सहस्रश:

English

With his bow cut, Drona's son, best of the mighty, with a dart quickly felled Shaineya's charioteer from his chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चालेषु तथा कर्ण: क्षयं चक्रुर्महारथा: करते थे! इन तीनों महारथियोंने बहुत-से शत्रुओंका संहार कर डाला

English

Then, taking another bow, the mighty son of Drona covered Shaineya with showers of arrows, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जम्मुर्विनाशं समरे राजन दुर्मन्त्रिते तव

English

His horses, when the charioteer fell, were seen running here and there, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विव्याध भरतश्रेष्ठ चतुरश्चास्य वाजिन: क्षुरेण सहदेवस्य ध्वजं चिच्छेद काउ्चनम्

English

Those led by Yudhishthira rushed with speed at Drona's son, best of weapon-bearers, loosing sharp arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सहदेवकी सुवर्णमयी ध्वजा काट डाली

English

Seeing them coming, terrible in form, the scorcher of foes, Drona's son, laughing, met them in the great battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यमयो: सहसा राजन विव्याध च त्रिसप्तभि: दोनोंको भी इकक्‍्कीस बाणोंसे घायल कर दिया

English

Then Drona's son, a great chariot-warrior blazing with hundreds of arrows, burned the army in the battle as fire burns dry grass in a forest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रगृह्म रेजतुः शूरौ देवपुत्रसमौ युधि

English

That army of the sons of Pandu, scorched by Drona's son, was agitated, O best of the Bharatas, like a river's mouth by a whale.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरैर्ववृषतुर्घोरैर्महामेघौ यथाचलम् बाणोंद्वारा आगे बढ़नेसे रोक दिया

English

Seeing Drona's son's prowess, O great king, they thought all the Pandavas slain by Drona's son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बाणभूते ततस्तस्मिन् संछन्ने च नभस्तले पराक्रमं तु तं दृष्टवा तव सूनोर्महारथा:

English

Yudhishthira, swiftly embracing the great chariot-warrior Drona's son, filled with anger and indignation, said to him:

हिन्दी अर्थ

मृत्युके निकट पहुँच गये

English

"You have no affection and no gratitude, tiger among men, since today you seek to kill me alone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः: सेनापती राजन् पाण्डवस्य महारथ: माद्रीपुत्रो ततः शूरौ व्यतिक्रम्य महारथौ

English

A Brahmana should practise austerity, giving and study; a kshatriya should bend the bow; you are a so-called Brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मारसे आपके पुत्रको रोक दिया

English

Mighty-armed one, I shall conquer the Kauravas in battle before your eyes; do your deed in battle, you are surely a Brahmana in name only."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमविध्यदमेयात्मा तव पुत्रो हामर्षण: ततः पुनरमेयात्मा तव पुत्रो हामर्षण:

English

Thus addressed, O great king, Drona's son, as if smiling, reflecting that it was fitting, said nothing in reply.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथास्य सशरं चापं हस्तावापं च मारिष

English

Saying nothing, he covered the Pandava in battle with showers of arrows, enraged like Death among creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और दस्तानेको भी काट दिया लिया, जो भार सहनेमें समर्थ और नवीन था

English

Covered then by Drona's son, O revered one, Partha quickly withdrew, leaving the great host.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पलाश वृक्षके समान अत्यन्त सुशोभित हो रहा था

English

When the king of dharma Yudhishthira had retreated, Drona's son stood, O king, by the great soul's refusal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सच्छिन्नवर्मा नाराचप्रहारैर्जर्जरीकृत: अथीनं छिन्नधन्वानं त्वरमाणो महीपति:

English

Then King Yudhishthira, leaving Drona's son in the great battle, went to your army, bent on cruel deed.