ततः क्रुद्धो रणे कर्णः पीडितो दृढधन्वना ॥
वेगं चक्रे महावेगो भीमसेनवधं प्रति ॥
तस्मै कर्णः शतं राजन्न् इषूणां गार्ध्रवाससाम् ॥
अमर्षी बलवान् क्रुद्धः प्रेषयाम् आस भारत ॥
ततः प्रासृजद् उग्राणि शरवर्षाणि पाण्डवः ॥
समरे तम् अनादृत्य नास्य वीर्यम् अचिन्तयत् ॥
ततः कर्णो महाराज पाण्डवं निशितैः शरैः ॥
आजघानोरसि क्रुद्धः क्रुद्धरूपं परंतपः ॥
tataḥ kruddho raṇe karṇaḥ pīḍito dṛḍhadhanvanā ||
vegaṃ cakre mahāvego bhīmasenavadhaṃ prati ||
tasmai karṇaḥ śataṃ rājann iṣūṇāṃ gārdhravāsasām ||
amarṣī balavān kruddhaḥ preṣayām āsa bhārata ||
tataḥ prāsṛjad ugrāṇi śaravarṣāṇi pāṇḍavaḥ ||
samare tam anādṛtya nāsya vīryam acintayat ||
tataḥ karṇo mahārāja pāṇḍavaṃ niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
ājaghānorasi kruddhaḥ kruddharūpaṃ paraṃtapaḥ ||
Then Karna, enraged [in] battle, hard-pressed by the firm-bowed one, swift, made a surge [toward] the slaying of Bhimasena. At him Karna, impatient, strong, enraged, sent a hundred arrows [with] vulture-feathers, O Bharata. Then the Pandava let loose fierce showers of arrows, [in] battle disdaining him, not reckoning his valor. Then Karna, O great king, enraged, the scorcher of foes, struck the Pandava, [who was] wrathful in form, [in] the chest with sharp arrows.
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Bhima 'disdains' Karna's valor — not out of arrogance but out of detachment: one who has surrendered his life does not weigh the enemy's strength. It is telling that both are called wrathful in form: fury has become their shared appearance. The verse teaches that in a clash of equals, the advantage comes not from gauging the other's power but from the readiness to disregard it; yet the anger that grips them both leads only to mutual exhaustion, not to resolution.