तं जयन्तम् अनीकानि तानि तान्य् एव भारत ॥
सर्वतो ऽभ्यद्रवन् द्रोणं युधिष्ठिरपुरोगमाः ॥
तान् अभिद्रवतः शूरांस् तावका दृढकार्मुकाः ॥
सर्वतः प्रत्यगृह्णन्त तद् अभूल् लोमहर्षणम् ॥
शतमायस् तु शकुनिः सहदेवं समाद्रवत् ॥
सनियन्तृध्वजरथं विव्याध निशितैः शरैः ॥
taṃ jayantam anīkāni tāni tāny eva bhārata ||
sarvato 'bhyadravan droṇaṃ yudhiṣṭhirapurogamāḥ ||
tān abhidravataḥ śūrāṃs tāvakā dṛḍhakārmukāḥ ||
sarvataḥ pratyagṛhṇanta tad abhūl lomaharṣaṇam ||
śatamāyas tu śakuniḥ sahadevaṃ samādravat ||
saniyantṛdhvajarathaṃ vivyādha niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
Him [Drona,] triumphant — the armies, those very same [Pandava hosts], led by Yudhishthira, O Bharata — rushed upon Drona from all sides. Your steady archers met these charging heroes from every side; and it was hair-raising. But the hundred-guiled Shakuni fell upon Sahadeva and struck him, together with his charioteer, standard, and chariot, with sharp arrows.
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Against Drona alone rush "all the armies led by Yudhishthira": the unmatched one is met by a united multitude, which itself acknowledges his power. From this verse the tale turns from the single storm of Drona to a chain of duels — the battle breaks apart into individual encounters. The epithet "hundred-guiled" for Shakuni is no accident: even on the battlefield he remains above all a master of stratagems. The verse teaches that what cannot be overcome alone is met together; that a great battle is composed of many individual confrontations, each with its own truth and its own fate; and that a man's nature, shown before, follows him onto the field of battle as well — as with Shakuni's guile.