ततस् तूर्यनिनादैश् च भेरीणां च महास्वनैः ॥
तावकानाम् अनीकानि परेषां चापि निर्ययुः ॥
व्यावृत्ते ऽहनि राजेन्द्र पतिते जाह्नवीसुते ॥
अमर्षवशम् आपन्नाः कालोपहतचेतसः ॥
अनादृत्य वचः पथ्यं गाङ्गेयस्य महात्मनः ॥
निर्ययुर् भरतश्रेष्ठाः शस्त्राण्य् आदाय सर्वशः ॥
tatas tūryaninādaiś ca bherīṇāṃ ca mahāsvanaiḥ ||
tāvakānām anīkāni pareṣāṃ cāpi niryayuḥ ||
vyāvṛtte 'hani rājendra patite jāhnavīsute ||
amarṣavaśam āpannāḥ kālopahatacetasaḥ ||
anādṛtya vacaḥ pathyaṃ gāṅgeyasya mahātmanaḥ ||
niryayur bharataśreṣṭhāḥ śastrāṇy ādāya sarvaśaḥ ||
Then, to the blare of [war] trumpets and the mighty roar of kettledrums, the armies of your side and of the foes went forth as well. At the close of the day, O lord of kings, when the son of Jahnavi [Bhishma] had fallen, having succumbed to the power of wrath, their minds struck by Time, disregarding the beneficial word of the great-souled son of Ganga, the best of the Bharatas went forth, weapons taken up on every side.
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Scarcely having taken leave of the grandsire, the warriors "disregard his beneficial word" — the very testament of peace he gave the living: they honor the death of the righteous with ritual but not with obedience, and this is mere show of reverence. It is significant that they are driven by "wrath" and "minds clouded by Time": where wisdom falls silent, fury rules, and a man who gives himself to it becomes himself an instrument of fate. The verse teaches that to honor a departed teacher with a bow while rejecting his teaching is hypocrisy; and that war begun anew over the still-warm bed of a peacemaker is a sign of the blindness that leads a lineage to ruin.