प्रतिहत्य शरांस् तूर्णं शरवेगेन पाण्डवः ॥
प्रतस्थे तत्र तत्रैव योधयन् वै महारथान् ॥
तौ च फल्गुनबाणौघैर् विबाहुशिरसौ कृतौ ॥
वसुधाम् अन्वपद्येतां वातनुन्नाव् इव द्रुमौ ॥
श्रुतायुषश् च निधनं वधश् चैवाच्युतायुषः ॥
लोकविस्मापनम् अभूत् समुद्रस्येव शोषणम् ॥
pratihatya śarāṃs tūrṇaṃ śaravegena pāṇḍavaḥ ||
pratasthe tatra tatraiva yodhayan vai mahārathān ||
tau ca phalgunabāṇaughair vibāhuśirasau kṛtau ||
vasudhām anvapadyetāṃ vātanunnāv iva drumau ||
śrutāyuṣaś ca nidhanaṃ vadhaś caivācyutāyuṣaḥ ||
lokavismāpanam abhūt samudrasyeva śoṣaṇam ||
Parrying the arrows swiftly with the speed of his own arrows, the Pandava advanced here and there, slaying the great warriors. And the two, made bereft of arms and heads by the floods of Phalguna's arrows, fell upon the earth like trees toppled by the wind. And the death of Shrutayus, and the slaying of Achyutayus, were a wonder to the world, like the drying up of the ocean.
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"Lokavismāpanam... samudrasya iva śoṣaṇam," "a wonder to the world, like the drying up of the ocean": the fall of those deemed unconquerable strikes one as unthinkable -- an ocean run dry. Telling is it that only just before they had exulted over the 'slain' Arjuna -- and now they themselves have fallen. The verse teaches of the reversal awaiting the unrighteous in their triumph: their rejoicing over an illusory victory turns into their own destruction within the same hour; and whoever gloats over the fall of the righteous will soon fall himself -- a wonder to the world, like a dried-up ocean, for the triumph of lawlessness is illusory and fleeting.