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एष राजसहस्राणां वक्त्रैः पङ्कजसंनिभैः ॥
आस्तीर्य वसुधां पार्थ क्षिप्रम् आयाति सात्यकिः ॥
एष दुर्योधनं जित्वा भ्रातृभिः सहितं रणे ॥
निहत्य जलसंधं च क्षिप्रम् आयाति सात्यकिः ॥
रुधिरौघवतीं कृत्वा नदीं शोणितकर्दमाम् ॥
तृणवन् न्यस्य कौरव्यान् एष आयाति सात्यकिः ॥
eṣa rājasahasrāṇāṃ vaktraiḥ paṅkajasaṃnibhaiḥ ||
āstīrya vasudhāṃ pārtha kṣipram āyāti sātyakiḥ ||
eṣa duryodhanaṃ jitvā bhrātṛbhiḥ sahitaṃ raṇe ||
nihatya jalasaṃdhaṃ ca kṣipram āyāti sātyakiḥ ||
rudhiraughavatīṃ kṛtvā nadīṃ śoṇitakardamām ||
tṛṇavan nyasya kauravyān eṣa āyāti sātyakiḥ ||
"He, having strewn the earth, o Partha, with the faces of thousands of kings resembling lotuses, comes swiftly — Satyaki. He, having conquered Duryodhana together with his brothers in battle, and having slain Jalasandha, comes swiftly — Satyaki. Having made a river flow with streams of blood, mired with gore, having cast the Kauravyas aside like straw, he comes — Satyaki."
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Kings' faces like lotuses strewing the earth — beauty turned by war into dust. It is significant that Krishna's song of praise does not conceal the river of blood: the greatness of the feat and its terrible cost are named together. The verse teaches that even a righteous man's valor is paid for with a sea of deaths; and the praise of a true singer does not turn its gaze from the fact that every victory is also a field strewn with faces.