ततो दुर्योधनो राजा सुशर्माणम् अचोदयत् ॥
द्रोणस्य समरे राजन् पार्ष्णिग्रहणकारणात् ॥
त्रिगर्तराड् अपि क्रुद्धो भृशम् आयम्य कार्मुकम् ॥
छादयाम् आस समरे पार्थं बाणैर् अयोमुखैः ॥
ताभ्यां मुक्ताः शरा राजन्न् अन्तरिक्षे विरेजिरे ॥
हंसा इव महाराज शरत्काले नभस्तले ॥
ते शराः प्राप्य कौन्तेयं समस्ता विविशुः प्रभो ॥
फलभारनतं यद्वत् स्वादुवृक्षं विहंगमाः ॥
अर्जुनस् तु रणे नादं विनद्य रथिनां वरः ॥
त्रिगर्तराजं समरे सपुत्रं विव्यधे शरैः ॥
ते वध्यमानाः पार्थेन कालेनेव युगक्षये ॥
पार्थम् एवाभ्यवर्तन्त मरणे कृतनिश्चयाः ॥
मुमुचुः शरवृष्टिं च पाण्डवस्य रथं प्रति ॥
शरवृष्टिं ततस् तां तु शरवर्षेण पाण्डवः ॥
प्रतिजग्राह राजेन्द्र तोयवृष्टिम् इवाचलः ॥
तत्राद्भुतम् अपश्याम बीभत्सोर् हस्तलाघवम् ॥
विमुक्तां बहुभिः शूरैः शस्त्रवृष्टिं दुरासदाम् ॥
यद् एको वारयाम् आस मारुतो ऽभ्रगणान् इव ॥
कर्मणा तेन पार्थस्य तुतुषुर् देवदानवाः ॥
अथ क्रुद्धो रणे पार्थस् त्रिगर्तान् प्रति भारत ॥
मुमोचास्त्रं महाराज वायव्यं पृतनामुखे ॥
प्रादुरासीत् ततो वायुः क्षोभयाणो नभस्तलम् ॥
पातयन् वै तरुगणान् विनिघ्नंश् चैव सैनिकान् ॥
ततो द्रोणो ऽभिवीक्ष्यैव वायव्यास्त्रं सुदारुणम् ॥
शैलम् अन्यन् महाराज घोरम् अस्त्रं मुमोच ह ॥
द्रोणेन युधि निर्मुक्ते तस्मिन्न् अस्त्रे महामृधे ॥
प्रशशाम ततो वायुः प्रसन्नाश् चाभवन् दिशः ॥
ततः पाण्डुसुतो वीरस् त्रिगर्तस्य रथव्रजान् ॥
निरुत्साहान् रणे चक्रे विमुखान् विपराक्रमान् ॥
tato duryodhano rājā suśarmāṇam acodayat ||
droṇasya samare rājan pārṣṇigrahaṇakāraṇāt ||
trigartarāḍ api kruddho bhṛśam āyamya kārmukam ||
chādayām āsa samare pārthaṃ bāṇair ayomukhaiḥ ||
tābhyāṃ muktāḥ śarā rājann antarikṣe virejire ||
haṃsā iva mahārāja śaratkāle nabhastale ||
te śarāḥ prāpya kaunteyaṃ samastā viviśuḥ prabho ||
phalabhāranataṃ yadvat svāduvṛkṣaṃ vihaṃgamāḥ ||
arjunas tu raṇe nādaṃ vinadya rathināṃ varaḥ ||
trigartarājaṃ samare saputraṃ vivyadhe śaraiḥ ||
te vadhyamānāḥ pārthena kāleneva yugakṣaye ||
pārtham evābhyavartanta maraṇe kṛtaniścayāḥ ||
mumucuḥ śaravṛṣṭiṃ ca pāṇḍavasya rathaṃ prati ||
śaravṛṣṭiṃ tatas tāṃ tu śaravarṣeṇa pāṇḍavaḥ ||
pratijagrāha rājendra toyavṛṣṭim ivācalaḥ ||
tatrādbhutam apaśyāma bībhatsor hastalāghavam ||
vimuktāṃ bahubhiḥ śūraiḥ śastravṛṣṭiṃ durāsadām ||
yad eko vārayām āsa māruto 'bhragaṇān iva ||
karmaṇā tena pārthasya tutuṣur devadānavāḥ ||
atha kruddho raṇe pārthas trigartān prati bhārata ||
mumocāstraṃ mahārāja vāyavyaṃ pṛtanāmukhe ||
prādurāsīt tato vāyuḥ kṣobhayāṇo nabhastalam ||
pātayan vai tarugaṇān vinighnaṃś caiva sainikān ||
tato droṇo 'bhivīkṣyaiva vāyavyāstraṃ sudāruṇam ||
śailam anyan mahārāja ghoram astraṃ mumoca ha ||
droṇena yudhi nirmukte tasminn astre mahāmṛdhe ||
praśaśāma tato vāyuḥ prasannāś cābhavan diśaḥ ||
tataḥ pāṇḍusuto vīras trigartasya rathavrajān ||
nirutsāhān raṇe cakre vimukhān viparākramān ||
Sanjaya said: 'Then King Duryodhana ordered Sushilarman to guard Drona's rear in the battle, O king. Enraged, the king of the Trigartas drew his bow taut and covered Partha in the fight with iron-tipped arrows. The arrows loosed by the two of them, O king, shone in the sky like swans in the autumn firmament, great king. Reaching the son of Kunti, all these arrows struck home at once, as birds settle on a sweet-fruited tree bowed low with its burden. Then Arjuna, the best of charioteers, raising a war cry in the battle, pierced the king of the Trigartas together with his son with arrows. Cut down by Partha as though by Time at the destruction of an age, they, resolved upon death, turned again upon Partha himself and poured a rain of arrows upon the Pandava's chariot. But this rain of arrows the Pandava met with his own rain of arrows, O lord of kings, as a mountain receives a downpour of rain. There we beheld a wondrous thing -- the lightness of hand of Bibhatsu: an unassailable rain of weapons loosed by many heroes, he alone held off, as the wind scatters masses of clouds. By this deed of Partha's the gods and danavas were pleased. Then Partha, enraged in the battle, O Bharata, loosed the Vayavya weapon against the Trigartas at the head of their army, great king. Then a wind arose, shaking the vault of heaven, felling stands of trees and slaying soldiers. Seeing this most terrible Vayavya weapon, Drona, great king, loosed another fearsome weapon, the mountain astra. When this weapon was released by Drona in the great battle, the wind died down and the quarters grew clear. Then the valiant son of Pandu broke the spirit of the Trigartas' columns of chariots in the battle, turning them back with their strength shattered.'
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Arjuna and Drona fight here not only with arrows but with the science of divine weapons: Arjuna's wind is stopped by Drona's mountain astra. Their bond as teacher and disciple shows itself as an equality in the knowledge of arms -- but the battlefield turns this equality into something devastating.