सौमदत्तेर् वधाद् द्रोणम् आयस्तं सैन्धवस्य च ॥
अमर्षाज् जीवितं त्यक्त्वा गाहमानं वरूथिनीम् ॥
जृम्भमाणम् इव व्याघ्रं व्यात्ताननम् इवान्तकम् ॥
कथं प्रत्युद्ययुर् द्रोणम् अस्यन्तं पाण्डुसृञ्जयाः ॥
आचार्यं ये च ते ऽरक्षन् दुर्योधनपुरोगमाः ॥
द्रौणिकर्णकृपास् तात ते ऽप्य् अकुर्वन् किम् आहवे ॥
भारद्वाजं जिघांसन्तौ सव्यसाचिवृकोदरौ ॥
समार्छन् मामका युद्धे कथं संजय शंस मे ॥
सिन्धुराजवधेनेमे घटोत्कचवधेन ते ॥
अमर्षिताः सुसंक्रुद्धा रणं चक्रुः कथं निशि ॥
saumadatter vadhād droṇam āyastaṃ saindhavasya ca ||
amarṣāj jīvitaṃ tyaktvā gāhamānaṃ varūthinīm ||
jṛmbhamāṇam iva vyāghraṃ vyāttānanam ivāntakam ||
kathaṃ pratyudyayur droṇam asyantaṃ pāṇḍusṛñjayāḥ ||
ācāryaṃ ye ca te 'rakṣan duryodhanapurogamāḥ ||
drauṇikarṇakṛpās tāta te 'py akurvan kim āhave ||
bhāradvājaṃ jighāṃsantau savyasācivṛkodarau ||
samārchan māmakā yuddhe kathaṃ saṃjaya śaṃsa me ||
sindhurājavadheneme ghaṭotkacavadhena te ||
amarṣitāḥ susaṃkruddhā raṇaṃ cakruḥ kathaṃ niśi ||
"Drona -- [enraged] from the death of Saumadatti [Bhuri] and inflamed [by the death] of Saindhava [Jayadratha], having scorned life out of indignation, cutting into the army like a yawning tiger, like Antaka with jaws agape -- how did the Pandavas and Srinjayas meet Drona as he shot? And who guarded the teacher, with Duryodhana at their head -- Drauni, Karna, Kripa, my son -- what did they do in the battle? Those eager to slay Drona -- Savyasachin [Arjuna] and Vrikodara [Bhima] -- how did mine meet them in battle, tell me, Sanjaya. These -- from the death of the king of Sindhu, those -- from the death of Ghatotkacha, indignant, greatly enraged -- how did they wage battle in the night?"
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Dhritarashtra pictures Drona, having scorned life out of wrath, "like a tiger, like Antaka": the teacher's grief for the fallen turns into self-forgetful fury. It is telling that both sides are driven by indignation over the slain. The verse teaches that grief for one's own, poured into anger, makes a warrior unstoppable and heedless of his own life; and war feeds on this chain of loss and vengeance, where each death kindles new fury.