संजय उवाच
श्रुत्वा तु तं महाशब्दं पाण्डूनां पुत्रगृद्धिनाम् ॥
चारैः प्रवेदिते तत्र समुत्थाय जयद्रथः ॥
शोकसंमूढहृदयो दुःखेनाभिहतो भृशम् ॥
मज्जमान इवागाधे विपुले शोकसागरे ॥
जगाम समितिं राज्ञां सैन्धवो विमृशन् बहु ॥
स तेषां नरदेवानां सकाशे परिदेवयन् ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
śrutvā tu taṃ mahāśabdaṃ pāṇḍūnāṃ putragṛddhinām ||
cāraiḥ pravedite tatra samutthāya jayadrathaḥ ||
śokasaṃmūḍhahṛdayo duḥkhenābhihato bhṛśam ||
majjamāna ivāgādhe vipule śokasāgare ||
jagāma samitiṃ rājñāṃ saindhavo vimṛśan bahu ||
sa teṣāṃ naradevānāṃ sakāśe paridevayan ||
Having heard that loud clamor of the Pandavas, grieving over their son — when the spies had told of it — Jayadratha rose, his heart in confusion, grievously struck down by sorrow, like one sinking in the bottomless, boundless ocean of grief; the man of Sindhu, in heavy brooding, went to the assembly of kings, lamenting before those lords of men.
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The loud clamor of the Pandavas and the sound of the Panchajanya did not stir fury in the enemy's camp, but terror: "śokasaṃmūḍhahṛdayaḥ… majjamānaḥ iva… śokasāgare" — Jayadratha drowns in a sea of grief even before the battle begins. It is telling that Arjuna's vow works upon the guilty man before the arrow does: conscience and fear already execute their sentence on him. He who once barred the gate to a defenseless boy now himself thrashes in confusion. The verse teaches that an unrighteous deed carries its own retribution within the doer: fear anticipates the punishment, and the wrongdoer is chastised by his own heart before ever the avenger's hand reaches him.