संजय उवाच
तस्मिन्न् अहनि निर्वृत्ते घोरे प्राणभृतां क्षये ॥
आदित्ये ऽस्तंगते श्रीमान् संध्याकाल उपस्थिते ॥
व्यपयातेषु सैन्येषु वासाय भरतर्षभ ॥
हत्वा संशप्तकव्रातान् दिव्यैर् अस्त्रैः कपिध्वजः ॥
प्रायात् स्वशिबिरं जिष्णुर् जैत्रम् आस्थाय तं रथम् ॥
गच्छन्न् एव च गोविन्दं सन्नकण्ठो ऽभ्यभाषत ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
tasminn ahani nirvṛtte ghore prāṇabhṛtāṃ kṣaye ||
āditye 'staṃgate śrīmān saṃdhyākāla upasthite ||
vyapayāteṣu sainyeṣu vāsāya bharatarṣabha ||
hatvā saṃśaptakavrātān divyair astraiḥ kapidhvajaḥ ||
prāyāt svaśibiraṃ jiṣṇur jaitram āsthāya taṃ ratham ||
gacchann eva ca govindaṃ sannakaṇṭho 'bhyabhāṣata ||
When that terrible day, [full] of the slaughter of the living, had ended, at the setting of the sun, as the hour of twilight fell, O bull of Bharata, when the armies had dispersed to their rest, the monkey-bannered one, having slain the hosts of the Samshaptakas with divine weapons, set out for his own camp. The victorious one, having mounted that triumphant chariot, still on the way addressed Govinda in a choked voice.
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The chapter opens with a sunset, and this sunset is prophetic: "ghore prāṇabhṛtāṃ kṣaye", "on a day of terrible slaughter of the living". Arjuna returns victorious over the Samshaptakas, but "sannakaṇṭhaḥ", "with a choked throat", still knowing nothing, already senses disaster in his heart. It is telling that he turns to Govinda: even in vague foreboding the warrior seeks first the face of the Lord. The verse teaches that the soul can foreknow loss before the mind does, and its first movement in such an hour is toward God.