संमोहयित्वा तम् अथ दुर्योधनम् अमोचयन् ॥
आस्याद् ग्रासम् इवाक्षिप्तं ममृषे नार्जुनात्मजः ॥
ताञ् शरौघेण महता साश्वसूतान् महारथान् ॥
विमुखीकृत्य सौभद्रः सिंहनादम् अथानदत् ॥
तस्य नादं ततः श्रुत्वा सिंहस्येवामिषैषिणः ॥
नामृष्यन्त सुसंरब्धाः पुनर् द्रोणमुखा रथाः ॥
saṃmohayitvā tam atha duryodhanam amocayan ||
āsyād grāsam ivākṣiptaṃ mamṛṣe nārjunātmajaḥ ||
tāñ śaraugheṇa mahatā sāśvasūtān mahārathān ||
vimukhīkṛtya saubhadraḥ siṃhanādam athānadat ||
tasya nādaṃ tataḥ śrutvā siṃhasyevāmiṣaiṣiṇaḥ ||
nāmṛṣyanta susaṃrabdhāḥ punar droṇamukhā rathāḥ ||
Having bewildered him, they rescued Duryodhana, as though snatching a morsel from a lion's jaws. But the son of Arjuna would not bear it: turning back those great chariot-warriors, with their horses and charioteers, in a great torrent of arrows, the son of Subhadra let out a lion's roar. Hearing that roar — as beasts craving prey hear the roar of a lion — the chariot warriors led by Drona, utterly enraged, could not endure it, and charged again.
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Duryodhana is torn from the boy's grasp "like a morsel from a lion's jaws": the image shows how close the king came to death — the prey was already all but seized. And Abhimanyu's lion-roar, having driven back the great warriors, inflames them still further: the lion has lost its prey, and the beasts rage. It is telling that the boy alone turns back a dozen of the mightiest. The verse teaches that the valor of one can wrest victory almost out of the hands of many, and only by massing together can they take the prey from him; that a fearsome roar terrifies, yet also inflames those deprived of their prey; and that in this image of a lion whose morsel was snatched away, there appears both the greatness of the boy, who held the king's fate in his hand, and the fury of enemies for whom the humiliation of being routed by one becomes fresh fuel for malice.