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तेषां शरैः स्वर्णपुङ्खैः शस्त्रैश् च विविधैः शितैः ॥
वाहनैर् आयुधैश् चैव संपूर्णां पश्य मेदिनीम् ॥
वर्मभिश् चर्मभिर् हारैः शिरोभिश् च सकुण्डलैः ॥
उष्णीषैर् मुकुटैः स्रग्भिश् चूडामणिभिर् अम्बरैः ॥
कण्ठसूत्रैर् अङ्गदैश् च निष्कैर् अपि च सुप्रभैः ॥
अन्यैश् चाभरणैश् चित्रैर् भाति भारत मेदिनी ॥
teṣāṃ śaraiḥ svarṇapuṅkhaiḥ śastraiś ca vividhaiḥ śitaiḥ ||
vāhanair āyudhaiś caiva saṃpūrṇāṃ paśya medinīm ||
varmabhiś carmabhir hāraiḥ śirobhiś ca sakuṇḍalaiḥ ||
uṣṇīṣair mukuṭaiḥ sragbhiś cūḍāmaṇibhir ambaraiḥ ||
kaṇṭhasūtrair aṅgadaiś ca niṣkair api ca suprabhaiḥ ||
anyaiś cābharaṇaiś citrair bhāti bhārata medinī ||
"With their arrows of golden feathering, and with various sharp weapons, with mounts and weapons — behold the earth, filled [with them]. With armor, shields, necklaces, and heads with earrings, with turbans, crowns, garlands, with crest-jewels and garments, with neck-strings and armlets, and radiant nishkas, and other varied ornaments, the earth gleams, o Bharata."
bab1d03b97ab · published Jul 19, 2026, 4:31:38 PM UTC
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The earth "gleams" with the finery of the fallen — gold, garlands, jewels: horror clothed in splendor. It is telling that all with which the living once adorned themselves now lies upon the lifeless. The verse teaches that the luxury and beauty in which pride arrays itself, war turns into refuse strewn across a field; and the glitter of ornament upon the bodies of the dead reveals, more bitterly than anything, the vanity of that with which man indulged his mortality.