भीष्म उवाच
तम् अहं स्मयन्न् इव रणे प्रत्यभाषं व्यवस्थितम् ॥
भूमिष्ठं नोत्सहे योद्धुं भवन्तं रथम् आस्थितः ॥
आरोह स्यन्दनं वीर कवचं च महाभुज ॥
बधान समरे राम यदि योद्धुं मयेच्छसि ॥
ततो माम् अब्रवीद् रामः स्मयमानो रणाजिरे ॥
रथो मे मेदिनी भीष्म वाहा वेदाः सदश्ववत् ॥
सूतो मे मातरिश्वा वै कवचं वेदमातरः ॥
सुसंवीतो रणे ताभिर् योत्स्ये ऽहं कुरुनन्दन ॥
एवं ब्रुवाणो गान्धारे रामो मां सत्यविक्रमः ॥
शरव्रातेन महता सर्वतः पर्यवारयत् ॥
bhīṣma uvāca
tam ahaṃ smayann iva raṇe pratyabhāṣaṃ vyavasthitam ||
bhūmiṣṭhaṃ notsahe yoddhuṃ bhavantaṃ ratham āsthitaḥ ||
āroha syandanaṃ vīra kavacaṃ ca mahābhuja ||
badhāna samare rāma yadi yoddhuṃ mayecchasi ||
tato mām abravīd rāmaḥ smayamāno raṇājire ||
ratho me medinī bhīṣma vāhā vedāḥ sadaśvavat ||
sūto me mātariśvā vai kavacaṃ vedamātaraḥ ||
susaṃvīto raṇe tābhir yotsye 'haṃ kurunandana ||
evaṃ bruvāṇo gāndhāre rāmo māṃ satyavikramaḥ ||
śaravrātena mahatā sarvataḥ paryavārayat ||
Bhishma said: Then, as if smiling, I answered Rama, who stood firm before me in battle: 'Standing on my chariot, I cannot fight you while you stand on the ground. Mount your chariot, hero, and put on your armor, O mighty-armed Rama, if you wish to fight me in battle.' Then Rama, smiling on the battlefield, said to me: 'My chariot, Bhishma, is the earth; my horses are the Vedas, like fine steeds; my charioteer is the wind, and my armor is the mothers of the Vedas. Securely clad in them, I shall fight, O joy of the Kurus.' Having said this, Rama, whose valor is ever true, surrounded me on all sides with a great shower of arrows.
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This chapter shows that even a duel righteous in form remains spiritually perilous when weapons are raised against a teacher and a brahmin. Bhishma strives to keep the dharma: unwilling to strike an opponent on foot from his chariot, he descends before Rama, bows to him, and asks his blessing. Yet the situation itself is already tragic: Rama, a brahmin by nature, takes on the role of a warrior, and Bhishma is forced to distinguish in him the venerable brahminhood from the martial act against which he fights. When Rama is finally covered in blood, compassion and shame for the warrior's deed awaken in Bhishma. Thus the verse shows the limit of outward rightness: dharma demands action, but the heart must not rejoice in violence even when the battle seems unavoidable.