भीष्म उवाच
समुद्यतो ऽयं भारो मे सुमहान् सागरोपमः ॥
धार्तराष्ट्रस्य संग्रामे वर्षपूगाभिचिन्तितः ॥
तस्मिन्न् अभ्यागते काले प्रतप्ते लोमहर्षणे ॥
मिथोभेदो न मे कार्यस् तेन जीवसि सूतज ॥
न ह्य् अहं नाद्य विक्रम्य स्थविरो ऽपि शिशोस् तव ॥
युद्धश्रद्धां रणे छिन्द्यां जीवितस्य च सूतज ॥
जामदग्न्येन रामेण महास्त्राणि प्रमुञ्चता ॥
न मे व्यथाभवत् का चित् त्वं तु मे किं करिष्यसि ॥
कामं नैतत् प्रशंसन्ति सन्तो ऽऽत्मबलसंस्तवम् ॥
वक्ष्यामि तु त्वां संतप्तो निहीन कुलपांसन ॥
bhīṣma uvāca
samudyato 'yaṃ bhāro me sumahān sāgaropamaḥ ||
dhārtarāṣṭrasya saṃgrāme varṣapūgābhicintitaḥ ||
tasminn abhyāgate kāle pratapte lomaharṣaṇe ||
mithobhedo na me kāryas tena jīvasi sūtaja ||
na hy ahaṃ nādya vikramya sthaviro 'pi śiśos tava ||
yuddhaśraddhāṃ raṇe chindyāṃ jīvitasya ca sūtaja ||
jāmadagnyena rāmeṇa mahāstrāṇi pramuñcatā ||
na me vyathābhavat kā cit tvaṃ tu me kiṃ kariṣyasi ||
kāmaṃ naitat praśaṃsanti santo ''tmabalasaṃstavam ||
vakṣyāmi tu tvāṃ saṃtapto nihīna kulapāṃsana ||
Bhishma said: This great burden of the son of Dhritarashtra, vast as the ocean and pondered over many years, has been laid upon me in battle. Now that this scorching, hair-raising hour has come, I must not sow discord among our own side; that is why you remain alive, O son of a suta. Indeed, old as I am, I have no wish today to exert my strength and cut short, in battle, your boyish faith in fighting and in your own life, O son of a suta. When Rama, son of Jamadagni, was loosing his great astras at me, no fear ever touched me — what, then, could you do to me? Of course, the noble do not praise self-glorification of one's own strength, but inflamed as I am, I will tell you this all the same, you disgrace of your lineage.
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Bhishma sharply checks Karna, but he does so to preserve the army: before a battle begins, discord within is more dangerous than the enemy without. His subsequent speech about the Pandavas then reads as a sober warning to Duryodhana. He lists not only their strength, stature, and weapons but also the memory of Draupadi's humiliation and the dice game — precisely this memory will fuel their fighting. A special place is given to Arjuna together with Krishna: here the ratha is assessed not merely as a warrior but as an entire fighting reality, in which charioteer, weapons, horses, armor, astras, and inner resolve are joined into a single force.