संजय उवाच
हते सुदक्षिणे राजन् वीरे चैव श्रुतायुधे ॥
जवेनाभ्यद्रवन् पार्थं कुपिताः सैनिकास् तव ॥
अभीषाहाः शूरसेनाः शिबयो ऽथ वसातयः ॥
अभ्यवर्षंस् ततो राजञ् शरवर्षैर् धनंजयम् ॥
तेषां षष्टिशतानार्यान् प्रामथ्नात् पाण्डवः शरैः ॥
ते स्म भीताः पलायन्त व्याघ्रात् क्षुद्रमृगा इव ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
hate sudakṣiṇe rājan vīre caiva śrutāyudhe ||
javenābhyadravan pārthaṃ kupitāḥ sainikās tava ||
abhīṣāhāḥ śūrasenāḥ śibayo 'tha vasātayaḥ ||
abhyavarṣaṃs tato rājañ śaravarṣair dhanaṃjayam ||
teṣāṃ ṣaṣṭiśatānāryān prāmathnāt pāṇḍavaḥ śaraiḥ ||
te sma bhītāḥ palāyanta vyāghrāt kṣudramṛgā iva ||
When, O king, Sudakshina was slain, and the hero Shrutayudha, your enraged warriors rushed headlong upon Partha. The Abhishahas, the Shurasenas, the Shibis, and the Vasatis then, O king, showered Dhananjaya with rains of arrows. Six thousand of these noble men the Pandava crushed with his arrows; they fled in fear, like small game before a tiger.
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The fall of leaders does not enlighten the wrongdoers -- new hosts of darkness hurl themselves at Arjuna and flee just the same, "vyāghrāt kṣudramṛgāḥ iva," like small game before a tiger. Telling is the stubbornness stripped of hope: as the fallen go down, new ones rise to fall or flee in their turn. The verse teaches that an unrighteous cause multiplies its victims without count: the blinded do not retreat before what is plain to see, but drive company after company to destruction; and the tragedy of lawlessness lies in this senseless squandering of courage, which runs like game the instant it meets a righteous strength.