वैशंपायन उवाच
धनंजयस्य वक्ष्यामि विजयं पूर्वम् एव ते ॥
यौगपद्येन पार्थैर् हि विजितेयं वसुंधरा ॥
पूर्वं कुणिन्दविषये वशे चक्रे महीपतीन् ॥
धनंजयो महाबाहुर् नातितीव्रेण कर्मणा ॥
आनर्तान् कालकूटांश् च कुणिन्दांश् च विजित्य सः ॥
सुमण्डलं पापजितं कृतवान् अनुसैनिकम् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
dhanaṃjayasya vakṣyāmi vijayaṃ pūrvam eva te ||
yaugapadyena pārthair hi vijiteyaṃ vasuṃdharā ||
pūrvaṃ kuṇindaviṣaye vaśe cakre mahīpatīn ||
dhanaṃjayo mahābāhur nātitīvreṇa karmaṇā ||
ānartān kālakūṭāṃś ca kuṇindāṃś ca vijitya saḥ ||
sumaṇḍalaṃ pāpajitaṃ kṛtavān anusainikam ||
"Of Dhananjaya's victory I shall tell you first, for this earth was conquered by the four Parthas simultaneously. First, in the region of Kuninda, Dhananjaya the mighty-armed brought the kings under his sway — with force not overly harsh. Having conquered the Anartas, the Kalakutas, and the Kunindas, he made [king] Sumandala, already defeated, a soldier attached to [his own] army."
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The word is significant: Arjuna conquers "with force not overly harsh" (nātitīvreṇa karmaṇā). The conquest of the righteous is not annihilation but a bringing to concord; the sword is drawn only enough to bend, not to crush. And the defeated is not destroyed, but "joins the army": the enemy becomes an ally. The verse teaches that true victory multiplies not ruins but allies; and strength, tempered by dharma, conquers not through fear of death but through the acknowledgment of rightness.