Санджая
द्रौणिः पाञ्चालराजानं भारद्वाजश् च सृञ्जयान् ॥
छादयाम् आसतुः संख्ये शरैः संनतपर्वभिः ॥
पाण्डुपाञ्चालसेनानां कौरवाणां च मारिष ॥
आसीन् निष्टानको घोरो निघ्नताम् इतरेतरम् ॥
नैवास्माभिर् न पूर्वैर् नो दृष्टं पूर्वं तथाविधम् ॥
युद्धं यादृशम् एवासीत् तां रात्रिं सुमहाभयम् ॥
drauṇiḥ pāñcālarājānaṃ bhāradvājaś ca sṛñjayān ||
chādayām āsatuḥ saṃkhye śaraiḥ saṃnataparvabhiḥ ||
pāṇḍupāñcālasenānāṃ kauravāṇāṃ ca māriṣa ||
āsīn niṣṭānako ghoro nighnatām itaretaram ||
naivāsmābhir na pūrvair no dṛṣṭaṃ pūrvaṃ tathāvidham ||
yuddhaṃ yādṛśam evāsīt tāṃ rātriṃ sumahābhayam ||
Drauni [covered] the king of the Panchalas, and Bharadvaja the Srinjayas; those two covered [them] in the encounter with smooth-jointed arrows. Among the armies of the Pandus and Panchalas, and among the Kauravas, O worthy one, there was a dreadful roar of those striking one another. Neither by us nor by our forebears was such a battle ever seen before as this one was, on that night, most terrible.
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The chapter closes with the seasoned messenger's confession: neither he nor his forebears had ever seen such a battle. It is telling that Sanjaya, who has witnessed the whole war, recoils before this night as before something unprecedented: there are limits of horror beyond which even a voice accustomed to bloodshed falls silent. The verse teaches that evil pushed to the extreme surpasses all prior experience and every measure; and the night battle of Kurukshetra stands as a monument to the depths a feud can reach once it has forgotten kinship.