अथ भीमरथः शाल्वम् आशुगैर् आयसैः शितैः ॥
षड्भिः साश्वनियन्तारम् अनयद् यमसादनम् ॥
श्रुतकर्माणम् आयान्तं मयूरसदृशैर् हयैः ॥
चैत्रसेनिर् महाराज तव पौत्रो न्यवारयत् ॥
तौ पौत्रौ तव दुर्धर्षौ परस्परवधैषिणौ ॥
पितॄणाम् अर्थसिद्ध्यर्थं चक्रतुर् युद्धम् उत्तमम् ॥
atha bhīmarathaḥ śālvam āśugair āyasaiḥ śitaiḥ ||
ṣaḍbhiḥ sāśvaniyantāram anayad yamasādanam ||
śrutakarmāṇam āyāntaṃ mayūrasadṛśair hayaiḥ ||
caitrasenir mahārāja tava pautro nyavārayat ||
tau pautrau tava durdharṣau parasparavadhaiṣiṇau ||
pitṝṇām arthasiddhyarthaṃ cakratur yuddham uttamam ||
Then Bhimaratha, with six sharp, swift-flying iron arrows, sent Shalva together with his horses and charioteer to the halls of Yama. Shrutakarman, riding up on peacock-hued horses, O great sovereign, was held back by the son of Chitrasena, your grandson. Both your grandsons, unassailable, eager to slay one another, waged a glorious fight for the success of their fathers' cause.
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Here two grandsons of Dhritarashtra's house meet — kinsmen 'eager to slay one another' 'for their fathers' cause.' The discord sown by the elders takes root in children and grandchildren, turning brothers against brothers in the third generation. It is telling that they fight not for themselves but 'for their fathers' cause' — inheriting another's quarrel as an inheritance. The verse teaches that the sin of discord, if not quenched in time, passes from generation to generation, drawing in descendants who bear no guilt; that children pay for the enmity of their fathers, shedding blood they did not poison; and that the gravest responsibility of those who start a feud lies in this — that they doom to fratricide even those not yet born when the hatred was sown.