नूनं स पतितः शेते धरण्यां रुधिरोक्षितः ॥
शोभयन् मेदिनीं गात्रैर् आदित्य इव पातितः ॥
रणे विनिहतं श्रुत्वा शोकार्ता वै विनंक्ष्यति ॥
सुभद्रा वक्ष्यते किं माम् अभिमन्युम् अपश्यती ॥
द्रौपदी चैव दुःखार्ते ते च वक्ष्यामि किं न्व् अहम् ॥
वज्रसारमयं नूनं हृदयं यन् न यास्यति ॥
सहस्रधा वधूं दृष्ट्वा रुदतीं शोककर्शिताम् ॥
nūnaṃ sa patitaḥ śete dharaṇyāṃ rudhirokṣitaḥ ||
śobhayan medinīṃ gātrair āditya iva pātitaḥ ||
raṇe vinihataṃ śrutvā śokārtā vai vinaṃkṣyati ||
subhadrā vakṣyate kiṃ mām abhimanyum apaśyatī ||
draupadī caiva duḥkhārte te ca vakṣyāmi kiṃ nv aham ||
vajrasāramayaṃ nūnaṃ hṛdayaṃ yan na yāsyati ||
sahasradhā vadhūṃ dṛṣṭvā rudatīṃ śokakarśitām ||
"Surely he lies slain on the earth, drenched in blood, adorning the earth with his body, like a felled sun. Hearing of him struck down in battle, Subhadra, broken by sorrow, will perish. What will she say to me, not seeing Abhimanyu? Truly my heart is of diamond, if it does not shatter a thousandfold, beholding the weeping, sorrow-wasted daughter-in-law."
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Arjuna's grief opens outward toward others: toward his mother Subhadra, who "śokārtā vinaṃkṣyati", "stricken with grief, will perish", and toward the young widow. The refrain "vajrasāramayaṃ hṛdayam", "a heart of diamond", now turns to another's sorrow: not his own pain but the sight of weeping kin threatens to split his heart "sahasradhā", into a thousand pieces. The image "ādityaḥ iva pātitaḥ", "like a felled sun", again raises the youth to the level of the sun. It is telling that mature love suffers not only its own loss but foresees the torment of those it loves. The verse teaches that the deepest grief is compassionate: it aches with another's pain before its own.