ततो भग्ने बले तस्मिन् विप्रयाते समन्ततः ॥
सव्यसाचिनि संक्रुद्धे त्रैगर्तान् भयम् आविशत् ॥
ते वध्यमानाः पार्थेन शरैः संनतपर्वभिः ॥
अमुह्यंस् तत्र तत्रैव त्रस्ता मृगगणा इव ॥
ततस् त्रिगर्तराट् क्रुद्धस् तान् उवाच महारथान् ॥
अलं द्रुतेन वः शूरा न भयं कर्तुम् अर्हथ ॥
tato bhagne bale tasmin viprayāte samantataḥ ||
savyasācini saṃkruddhe traigartān bhayam āviśat ||
te vadhyamānāḥ pārthena śaraiḥ saṃnataparvabhiḥ ||
amuhyaṃs tatra tatraiva trastā mṛgagaṇā iva ||
tatas trigartarāṭ kruddhas tān uvāca mahārathān ||
alaṃ drutena vaḥ śūrā na bhayaṃ kartum arhatha ||
Then, when that army was broken and scattered in every direction, and Savyasachin blazed with wrath, terror overcame the Trigartas. Struck down by Partha's well-fashioned arrows, they grew numb here and there, terrified, like herds of deer. Then the king of the Trigartas, in wrath, addressed those great chariot-warriors: 'Enough of this flight, O heroes! It does not befit you to yield to fear.'
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Those who vowed to kill Arjuna or die now scatter in panic, 'like herds of deer' — an image of the complete reversal of hunter into prey. And the king, who so recently inspired them with the oath, now grows angry at their faint-heartedness, forgetting that he himself led them down this fatal road. A bitter truth shows itself here: it is easy to swear an oath while the enemy is far off, and hard to stand firm when he strikes. It is telling that the leader rebukes them for their fear yet cannot restore the courage that has been taken from them — words cannot supply what the heart lacks. The verse teaches that an oath sworn without true readiness to pay its price crumbles in the hour of trial; and that a reproach for faint-heartedness is powerless where what is lacking is courage itself, not a reminder of it.