तं कोसलानाम् अधिपः कर्णिनाताडयद् धृदि ॥
स तस्याश्वान् ध्वजं चापं सूतं चापातयत् क्षितौ ॥
अथ कोसलराजस् तु विरथः खड्गचर्मधृत् ॥
इयेष फाल्गुनेः कायाच् छिरो हर्तुं सकुण्डलम् ॥
स कोसलानां भर्तारं राजपुत्रं बृहद्बलम् ॥
हृदि विव्याध बाणेन स भिन्नहृदयो ऽपतत् ॥
taṃ kosalānām adhipaḥ karṇinātāḍayad dhṛdi ||
sa tasyāśvān dhvajaṃ cāpaṃ sūtaṃ cāpātayat kṣitau ||
atha kosalarājas tu virathaḥ khaḍgacarmadhṛt ||
iyeṣa phālguneḥ kāyāc chiro hartuṃ sakuṇḍalam ||
sa kosalānāṃ bhartāraṃ rājaputraṃ bṛhadbalam ||
hṛdi vivyādha bāṇena sa bhinnahṛdayo 'patat ||
The lord of the Kosalas [Brihadbala] struck him with a karni arrow in the heart; he [Abhimanyu] felled his horses, banner, bow, and charioteer to the ground. Then the king of the Kosalas, chariotless, bearing sword and shield, resolved to sever the head of the son of Phalguna from his body, together with the earrings. He [Abhimanyu] pierced the lord of the Kosalas, the prince Brihadbala, in the heart with an arrow; and he, his heart pierced, fell.
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Brihadbala, king of Kosala [of the ancient line of Ikshvaku, the line of Rama], having lost his chariot, dares on foot with a sword to take the youth's head -- and himself falls, pierced in the heart. Thus falls yet another king, and the ancient glory of his line does not turn aside his hour. It is significant that the youth strikes ‘in the heart’ the one who aimed at his head -- a requital matched to the intent. The verse teaches that not even the most ancient royal line guarantees invulnerability -- the hour overtakes the descendant of glorious ancestors like anyone else; that one who plots to take another's head may himself be struck in the heart; and that the tradition, noting the death of Brihadbala, king of Kosala, among the rest, reminds us: war spares neither the young, nor the noble, nor the heirs of ancient sacred glory -- all alike are drawn to their appointed end.