प्रविद्धम् अतिवेगेन विक्षिप्तं कर्णसायकैः ॥
अभाग्यस्येव संकल्पस् तन् मोघम् अपतद् भुवि ॥
घटोत्कचस् तु संक्रुद्धो दृष्ट्वा चक्रं निपातितम् ॥
कर्णं प्राच्छादयद् बाणैः स्वर्भानुर् इव भास्करम् ॥
सूतपुत्रस् त्व् असंभ्रान्तो रुद्रोपेन्द्रेन्द्रविक्रमः ॥
घटोत्कचरथं तूर्णं छादयाम् आस पत्रिभिः ॥
घटोत्कचेन क्रुद्धेन गदा हेमाङ्गदा तदा ॥
क्षिप्ता भ्राम्य शरैः सापि कर्णेनाभ्याहतापतत् ॥
praviddham ativegena vikṣiptaṃ karṇasāyakaiḥ ||
abhāgyasyeva saṃkalpas tan mogham apatad bhuvi ||
ghaṭotkacas tu saṃkruddho dṛṣṭvā cakraṃ nipātitam ||
karṇaṃ prācchādayad bāṇaiḥ svarbhānur iva bhāskaram ||
sūtaputras tv asaṃbhrānto rudropendrendravikramaḥ ||
ghaṭotkacarathaṃ tūrṇaṃ chādayām āsa patribhiḥ ||
ghaṭotkacena kruddhena gadā hemāṅgadā tadā ||
kṣiptā bhrāmya śaraiḥ sāpi karṇenābhyāhatāpatat ||
Hurled with terrible speed, struck down by Karna's arrows, like the design of an unlucky man, it fell uselessly to the ground. And Ghatotkacha, enraged, seeing the disc struck down, showered Karna with arrows, as Rahu covers the sun. And the son of the suta, unshaken, with the might of Rudra, Upendra, and Indra, swiftly covered Ghatotkacha's chariot with feathered arrows. Then the gold-bound mace of the enraged Ghatotkacha, hurled, whirling — it too, struck down by Karna's arrows, fell.
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The disc falls "like the design of an unlucky man" — in vain: even a fearsome weapon is futile in an unfavorable hour. It is telling that the weapon is compared to a doomed design: not the power of the instrument but the favor of fate decides the outcome. The verse teaches that even a mighty means is powerless when the time is wrong: as the design of the unlucky collapses of itself, so the divine disc falls to the ground; and above both skill and weapon stands the inscrutable will of fate.