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न चेद् विधेर् अयं कालः प्राप्तः स्याद् अद्य पश्चिमः ॥
तव चैवास्य शत्रोश् च तन् ममाचक्ष्व पृच्छतः ॥
विस्मयो मे महान् पार्थ तव दृष्ट्वा शरान् इमान् ॥
व्यर्थान् निपततः संख्ये दुर्योधनरथं प्रति ॥
वज्राशनिसमा घोराः परकायावभेदिनः ॥
शराः कुर्वन्ति ते नार्थं पार्थ काद्य विडम्बना ॥
na ced vidher ayaṃ kālaḥ prāptaḥ syād adya paścimaḥ ||
tava caivāsya śatroś ca tan mamācakṣva pṛcchataḥ ||
vismayo me mahān pārtha tava dṛṣṭvā śarān imān ||
vyarthān nipatataḥ saṃkhye duryodhanarathaṃ prati ||
vajrāśanisamā ghorāḥ parakāyāvabhedinaḥ ||
śarāḥ kurvanti te nārthaṃ pārtha kādya viḍambanā ||
"If this is not the hour of fate, then today the last hour would have come — yours and this enemy's; tell me that, since I ask. Great is my astonishment, Partha, seeing these arrows of yours falling in vain in battle at Duryodhana's chariot. Terrible, like the stroke of the thunderbolt, cleaving the bodies of foes — your arrows do not reach their mark; Partha, what mockery is this today?"
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"Viḍambanā" — mockery, as if the battle itself were jeering: arrows terrible as the thunderbolt fall in vain. The Lord names two possible roots — "vidheḥ kālaḥ", the hour of fate, and an unknown obstacle — and thereby teaches how to distinguish the inevitable from the removable. It is significant that He who knows all leads Arjuna to the answer through a question. The verse teaches: when a mighty effort bears no fruit, seek the hidden cause, for behind visible futility lies an obstacle unseen by the eye.