तथैव युयुधानो ऽपि वृष्णीनां प्रवरो रथः ॥
अभ्यवर्षच् छरैः कर्णं तद् युद्धम् अभवत् समम् ॥
तावकाश् च महाराज कर्णपुत्रश् च दंशितः ॥
सात्यकिं विव्यधुस् तूर्णं समन्तान् निशितैः शरैः ॥
अस्त्रैर् अस्त्राणि संवार्य तेषां कर्णस्य चाभिभो ॥
अविध्यत् सात्यकिः क्रुद्धो वृषसेनं स्तनान्तरे ॥
तेन बाणेन निर्विद्धो वृषसेनो विशां पते ॥
न्यपतत् स रथे मूढो धनुर् उत्सृज्य वीर्यवान् ॥
tathaiva yuyudhāno 'pi vṛṣṇīnāṃ pravaro rathaḥ ||
abhyavarṣac charaiḥ karṇaṃ tad yuddham abhavat samam ||
tāvakāś ca mahārāja karṇaputraś ca daṃśitaḥ ||
sātyakiṃ vivyadhus tūrṇaṃ samantān niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
astrair astrāṇi saṃvārya teṣāṃ karṇasya cābhibho ||
avidhyat sātyakiḥ kruddho vṛṣasenaṃ stanāntare ||
tena bāṇena nirviddho vṛṣaseno viśāṃ pate ||
nyapatat sa rathe mūḍho dhanur utsṛjya vīryavān ||
So too Yuyudhana [Satyaki], the foremost chariot-warrior of the Vrishnis, showered Karna with arrows; that battle became an equal one. And your warriors, O great king, and Karna's armored son, swiftly pierced Satyaki from every side with sharp arrows. Warding off their weapons with his own, and Karna's too, O lord, Satyaki, enraged, pierced Vrishasena between the breasts. Pierced through by that arrow, Vrishasena, O lord of the peoples, sank onto his chariot, stupefied, the valorous one, dropping his bow.
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Satyaki alone wards off the weapons of many and strikes Karna's son in the chest: one man's mastery holds out against a whole encirclement. It is telling that the battle is twice called "equal" — Satyaki holds his own against the greatest. The verse teaches that the skilled and steadfast do not yield to superior numbers: warding off blows from every side, he not only defends but strikes; and in this lies the measure of a warrior, for whom a multitude of foes is not a sentence but merely a field for valor.