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संजय उवाच
ते किरन्तः शरव्रातान् सर्वे यत्ताः प्रहारिणः ॥
त्वरमाणा महाराज युयुधानम् अयोधयन् ॥
तं द्रोणः सप्तसप्तत्या जघान निशितैः शरैः ॥
दुर्मर्षणो द्वादशभिर् दुःसहो दशभिः शरैः ॥
विकर्णश् चापि निशितैस् त्रिंशद्भिः कङ्कपत्रिभिः ॥
विव्याध सव्ये पार्श्वे तु स्तनाभ्याम् अन्तरे तथा ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
te kirantaḥ śaravrātān sarve yattāḥ prahāriṇaḥ ||
tvaramāṇā mahārāja yuyudhānam ayodhayan ||
taṃ droṇaḥ saptasaptatyā jaghāna niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
durmarṣaṇo dvādaśabhir duḥsaho daśabhiḥ śaraiḥ ||
vikarṇaś cāpi niśitais triṃśadbhiḥ kaṅkapatribhiḥ ||
vivyādha savye pārśve tu stanābhyām antare tathā ||
All of them, readied fighters, scattering swarms of arrows, hastening, O great king, fought with Yuyudhana. Drona struck him with seventy-seven sharp arrows, Durmarshana with twelve, Duhsaha with ten arrows; and Vikarna pierced him in the left side and in the space between the breasts with thirty heron-feathered arrows.
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A whole host — Drona and the sons of Dhritarashtra — falls upon Satyaki alone: where one man is formidable, many gather against him. It is telling that this disproportion of forces betrays how terrible a single warrior appears to them. The verse teaches that a man's valor is measured by the number who rise against him: the more enemies close around the one, the more manifest his might — and the more glorious it is if he stands firm.