स बर्हिणमहावाजं किङ्किणीशतजालवत् ॥
चर्म चादाय खड्गं च नदन् पर्यपतद् रथात् ॥
ततः सैन्धवम् आलोक्य कार्ष्णिर् उत्सृज्य पौरवम् ॥
उत्पपात रथात् तूर्णं श्येनवन् निपपात च ॥
प्रासपट्टिशनिस्त्रिंशाञ् शत्रुभिः संप्रवेरितान् ॥
चिच्छेदाथासिना कार्ष्णिश् चर्मणा संरुरोध च ॥
स दर्शयित्वा सैन्यानां स्वबाहुबलम् आत्मनः ॥
तम् उद्यम्य महाखड्गं चर्म चाथ पुनर् बली ॥
वृद्धक्षत्रस्य दायादं पितुर् अत्यन्तवैरिणम् ॥
ससाराभिमुखः शूरः शार्दूल इव कुञ्जरम् ॥
sa barhiṇamahāvājaṃ kiṅkiṇīśatajālavat ||
carma cādāya khaḍgaṃ ca nadan paryapatad rathāt ||
tataḥ saindhavam ālokya kārṣṇir utsṛjya pauravam ||
utpapāta rathāt tūrṇaṃ śyenavan nipapāta ca ||
prāsapaṭṭiśanistriṃśāñ śatrubhiḥ saṃpraveritān ||
cicchedāthāsinā kārṣṇiś carmaṇā saṃrurodha ca ||
sa darśayitvā sainyānāṃ svabāhubalam ātmanaḥ ||
tam udyamya mahākhaḍgaṃ carma cātha punar balī ||
vṛddhakṣatrasya dāyādaṃ pitur atyantavairiṇam ||
sasārābhimukhaḥ śūraḥ śārdūla iva kuñjaram ||
He [Jayadratha], seizing his shield with splendid peacock plumage, hung with a hundred little bells, and his sword, sprang down from his chariot with a war cry. Then, having spotted Saindhava [Jayadratha], Karshni [Abhimanyu], letting Paurava go, sprang from his chariot in an instant and swooped down hawk-like. The javelins, spears, and swords hurled at him by his foes, Karshni [Abhimanyu] hewed with his sword and warded off with his shield. Having displayed to the armies the might of his own arm, once more lifting that huge sword and his shield, the mighty [Abhimanyu] advanced facing the son of Vriddhakshatra [Jayadratha], the mortal enemy of his father, as a tiger [advances] on an elephant.
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Abhimanyu, spotting Jayadratha — 'the mortal enemy of his father' — abandons everything and rushes toward him: the memory of his father's enmity flares up in the son. Thus not only valor but also the reckonings of families is inherited; and the youth, barely entering the fight, is already drawn into the old quarrel of his elders. The image of the tiger advancing on the elephant shows his fearlessness before a superior foe. The verse teaches that the enmity of fathers passes to sons, prolonging strife across generations; that a hero's fearlessness does not measure the strength of the opponent; and that Abhimanyu, hurling himself at his father's enemy, fulfills an inheritance in which valor and fatal enmity — leading to destruction — are intertwined.