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भूरिस् तु समरे राजञ् शैनेयं रथिनां वरम् ॥
आपतन्तम् अपासेधत् प्रपानाद् इव कुञ्जरम् ॥
अथैनं सात्यकिः क्रुद्धः पञ्चभिर् निशितैः शरैः ॥
विव्याध हृदये तूर्णं प्रास्रवत् तस्य शोणितम् ॥
तथैव कौरवो युद्धे शैनेयं युद्धदुर्मदम् ॥
दशभिर् विशिखैस् तीक्ष्णैर् अविध्यत भुजान्तरे ॥
ताव् अन्योन्यं महाराज ततक्षाते शरैर् भृशम् ॥
क्रोधसंरक्तनयनौ क्रोधाद् विस्फार्य कार्मुके ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
bhūris tu samare rājañ śaineyaṃ rathināṃ varam ||
āpatantam apāsedhat prapānād iva kuñjaram ||
athainaṃ sātyakiḥ kruddhaḥ pañcabhir niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
vivyādha hṛdaye tūrṇaṃ prāsravat tasya śoṇitam ||
tathaiva kauravo yuddhe śaineyaṃ yuddhadurmadam ||
daśabhir viśikhais tīkṣṇair avidhyata bhujāntare ||
tāv anyonyaṃ mahārāja tatakṣāte śarair bhṛśam ||
krodhasaṃraktanayanau krodhād visphārya kārmuke ||
But Bhūri in battle, O king, repelled Śaineya, the best of warriors, as he charged, as an elephant is turned back from a watering-place. Then Sātyaki, enraged, pierced him in the heart instantly with five sharp arrows — his blood gushed forth. Likewise the Kaurava [Bhūri] struck Śaineya, furious in battle, in the forearm with ten sharp arrows. Those two, O great king, grievously wounded each other with arrows, their eyes reddened with wrath, having drawn their bows in fury.
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Two equals meet, and each strikes the other "with eyes reddened by wrath." It is telling that wrath is named twice: it drives them both, and in it lies the common root of their enmity. The verse teaches that fury levels combatants in blindness: inflamed, they see only the enemy and the wound, not the person before them; and a duel fed by wrath is not a trial of valor but a mutual blinding, in which both lose clarity for the sake of blows.