भारद्वाजो रणे विद्धो युयुधानेन सत्वरम् ॥
सात्यकिं बहुभिर् बाणैर् यतमानम् अविध्यत ॥
ततः क्रुद्धो महेष्वासो भूय एव महाबलः ॥
सात्वतं पीडयाम् आस शतेन नतपर्वणा ॥
स वध्यमानः समरे भारद्वाजेन सात्यकिः ॥
नाभ्यपद्यत कर्तव्यं किं चिद् एव विशां पते ॥
bhāradvājo raṇe viddho yuyudhānena satvaram ||
sātyakiṃ bahubhir bāṇair yatamānam avidhyata ||
tataḥ kruddho maheṣvāso bhūya eva mahābalaḥ ||
sātvataṃ pīḍayām āsa śatena nataparvaṇā ||
sa vadhyamānaḥ samare bhāradvājena sātyakiḥ ||
nābhyapadyata kartavyaṃ kiṃ cid eva viśāṃ pate ||
"Bharadvaja's son, pierced in battle by Yuyudhana, swiftly pierced Satyaki, who was striving hard, with many arrows. Then the enraged great archer, mighty, once again oppressed the Satvata [Satyaki] with a hundred smooth-jointed arrows. He, struck down in battle by Bharadvaja's son, Satyaki, found nothing at all to do, o lord of men."
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Even the valiant Satyaki 'na abhyapadyata kartavyam', finds nothing to do, under the master's onslaught: there is a limit at which even the bravest is lost. It is telling that confusion overtakes not only the weak. The verse teaches that even the most worthy knows a moment when no way out is visible; what is tested then is not his flawlessness, but whether help will come and whether he will hold out until it does -- for in the utmost strait it is no longer one's own strength that saves, but the faithfulness of friends.