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शूरैः शिक्षाबलोपेतैस् तरुणैर् अत्यमर्षणैः ॥
दृष्ट्वैकं समरे शूरं सौभद्रम् अपराजितम् ॥
छाद्यमानं शरव्रातैर् हृष्टो दुर्योधनो ऽभवत् ॥
वैवस्वतस्य भवनं गतम् एनम् अमन्यत ॥
सुवर्णपुङ्खैर् इषुभिर् नानालिङ्गैस् त्रिभिस् त्रिभिः ॥
अदृश्यम् आर्जुनिं चक्रुर् निमेषात् ते नृपात्मजाः ॥
śūraiḥ śikṣābalopetais taruṇair atyamarṣaṇaiḥ ||
dṛṣṭvaikaṃ samare śūraṃ saubhadram aparājitam ||
chādyamānaṃ śaravrātair hṛṣṭo duryodhano 'bhavat ||
vaivasvatasya bhavanaṃ gatam enam amanyata ||
suvarṇapuṅkhair iṣubhir nānāliṅgais tribhis tribhiḥ ||
adṛśyam ārjuniṃ cakrur nimeṣāt te nṛpātmajāḥ ||
By warriors endowed with training and strength, youthful and extremely fierce — Abhimanyu being covered with arrows — seeing this one invincible warrior, the son of Subhadra, overwhelmed in battle by clouds of arrows, Duryodhana rejoiced, deeming him gone to the dwelling of Vaivasvata [Yama]. With golden-feathered arrows of various kinds, three each, those princes made the son of Arjuna vanish from sight in an instant.
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Duryodhana rejoices the moment he sees the youth covered in arrows, hastily deeming him already dead: malicious joy is quick to mistake the wished-for for the accomplished. But to be "made invisible" beneath a cloud of arrows is not yet to be struck down — what is hidden is appearance, not substance. It is significant that the enemy's joy flares up before the outcome is known — and, as the tradition has shown more than once, prematurely. The verse teaches that malicious joy tends to take appearance for reality, burying the enemy before his actual death; that what is hidden beneath a cloud of arrows does not mean struck down; and that premature rejoicing over an opponent's death, like any triumph declared before the deed is done, betrays credulity rather than insight — and often precedes the disgrace of the one who rejoiced too soon.