तस्य भीमः पुनश् चापं मुष्टौ चिच्छेद मारिष ॥
शङ्खवर्णाश् च तान् अश्वान् बाणैर् निन्ये यमक्षयम् ॥
तथा कृच्छ्रगतं दृष्ट्वा कर्णं दुर्योधनो नृपः ॥
वेपमान इव क्रोधाद् व्यादिदेशाथ दुर्जयम् ॥
गच्छ दुर्जय राधेयं पुरा ग्रसति पाण्डवः ॥
जहि तूबरकं क्षिप्रं कर्णस्य बलम् आदधत् ॥
tasya bhīmaḥ punaś cāpaṃ muṣṭau ciccheda māriṣa ||
śaṅkhavarṇāś ca tān aśvān bāṇair ninye yamakṣayam ||
tathā kṛcchragataṃ dṛṣṭvā karṇaṃ duryodhano nṛpaḥ ||
vepamāna iva krodhād vyādideśātha durjayam ||
gaccha durjaya rādheyaṃ purā grasati pāṇḍavaḥ ||
jahi tūbarakaṃ kṣipraṃ karṇasya balam ādadhat ||
"His bow again Bhima severed at the grip, O venerable one, and those horses the color of a conch shell he sent with arrows to the abode of Yama. Seeing Karna fallen into such distress, King Duryodhana, as if trembling with rage, then commanded Durjaya: 'Go, Durjaya, to Radheya, before the Pandava devours him; slay this hornless one quickly, lending strength to Karna.'"
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Seeing Karna in trouble, Duryodhana trembles with rage and throws yet another brother — Durjaya — into the flames: another's life is for him only a prop for a collapsing support. It is significant that he flings the insult "tūbaraka," "hornless one," at the formidable Bhima: contempt for an enemy betrays not the enemy's weakness but the darkening mind of the one who utters it. The verse teaches that persistence in a wrongful cause only prolongs calamity with ever more victims; whoever patches a collapse with the bodies of kin destroys them, and himself, alike.