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शृणु राजन् यथा वृत्तः संग्रामः कर्णभीमयोः ॥
परस्परवधप्रेप्स्वोर् वने कुञ्जरयोर् इव ॥
राजन् वैकर्तनो भीमं क्रुद्धः क्रुद्धम् अरिंदमम् ॥
पराक्रान्तं पराक्रम्य विव्याध त्रिंशता शरैः ॥
महावेगैः प्रसन्नाग्रैः शातकुम्भपरिष्कृतैः ॥
आहनद् भरतश्रेष्ठ भीमं वैकर्तनः शरैः ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
śṛṇu rājan yathā vṛttaḥ saṃgrāmaḥ karṇabhīmayoḥ ||
parasparavadhaprepsvor vane kuñjarayor iva ||
rājan vaikartano bhīmaṃ kruddhaḥ kruddham ariṃdamam ||
parākrāntaṃ parākramya vivyādha triṃśatā śaraiḥ ||
mahāvegaiḥ prasannāgraiḥ śātakumbhapariṣkṛtaiḥ ||
āhanad bharataśreṣṭha bhīmaṃ vaikartanaḥ śaraiḥ ||
"Listen, O king, how the battle between Karna and Bhima happened, the two of them seeking each other's destruction, like two elephants in a forest. O king, the enraged Vaikartana, overcoming the wrathful Bhima as he advanced — Bhima, the tamer of foes — pierced him with thirty arrows. With swift arrows of gleaming points adorned with gold did Vaikartana strike Bhima, O best of the Bharatas."
f956e33af77d · published Jul 19, 2026, 4:17:34 PM UTC
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The two mighty ones are likened to forest elephants fighting to the death — the image of a blind force that crushes all before it. It is significant that the gold adorning the arrows does not soften their deadliness: the splendor of a weapon only underscores its purpose. The verse teaches that enmity carried to the point of seeking mutual destruction reduces even the greatest to the blind frenzy of beasts, and so it must be quenched before it flares up.