भीमकर्णकृपद्रोणद्रौणिपार्षतसात्यकैः ॥
बभासे स रणोद्देशः कालसूर्यैर् इवोदितैः ॥
तदासीत् तुमुलं युद्धं निघ्नताम् इतरेतरम् ॥
महाबलानां बलिभिर् दानवानां यथा सुरैः ॥
ततो युधिष्ठिरानीकम् उद्धूतार्णवनिस्वनम् ॥
त्वदीयम् अवधीत् सैन्यं संप्रद्रुतमहारथम् ॥
तत् प्रभग्नं बलं दृष्ट्वा शत्रुभिर् भृशम् अर्दितम् ॥
अलं द्रुतेन वः शूरा इति द्रोणो ऽभ्यभाषत ॥
bhīmakarṇakṛpadroṇadrauṇipārṣatasātyakaiḥ ||
babhāse sa raṇoddeśaḥ kālasūryair ivoditaiḥ ||
tadāsīt tumulaṃ yuddhaṃ nighnatām itaretaram ||
mahābalānāṃ balibhir dānavānāṃ yathā suraiḥ ||
tato yudhiṣṭhirānīkam uddhūtārṇavanisvanam ||
tvadīyam avadhīt sainyaṃ saṃpradrutamahāratham ||
tat prabhagnaṃ balaṃ dṛṣṭvā śatrubhir bhṛśam arditam ||
alaṃ drutena vaḥ śūrā iti droṇo 'bhyabhāṣata ||
With Bhima, Karna, Kripa, Drona, Drona's son [Ashvatthaman], Parshata [Dhrishtadyumna], and Satyaki, that field of combat gleamed as if with the risen luminaries of the world's end. Then a wild battle broke out among the mighty warriors smiting one another, as between the Danavas and the gods. Then the army of Yudhishthira, with a roar like a swelling sea, crushed your host, whose great chariot-warriors were in flight. Seeing that army put to rout and grievously crushed by the enemy, 'Enough of your fleeing, O warriors!' proclaimed Drona.
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The seven greatest warriors are likened to the 'suns of the world's end': each of them a scorching luminary, and together they proclaim universal dissolution. Drona himself must cry out 'enough of fleeing' — even a formidable teacher cannot alone hold back a disintegrating army: a host sustained by fear and by a few flees the moment it wavers. The verse teaches that a gathering of great valors on one field resembles a confluence of the luminaries of doom; that a commander, however formidable, is powerless against a spirit that has faltered within the army; and that a host not bound together by truth turns to flight, laying bare how flimsy its seeming might had been.