Дхритараштра
तौ तत्र समतिक्रान्तौ दृष्ट्वाभीतौ तरस्विनौ ॥
सिन्धुराजं च संप्रेक्ष्य गाण्डीवस्येषुगोचरे ॥
किं तदा कुरवः कृत्यं विदधुः कालचोदिताः ॥
दारुणैकायने काले कथं वा प्रतिपेदिरे ॥
ग्रस्तान् हि कौरवान् मन्ये मृत्युना तात संगतान् ॥
विक्रमो हि रणे तेषां न तथा दृश्यते ऽद्य वै ॥
tau tatra samatikrāntau dṛṣṭvābhītau tarasvinau ||
sindhurājaṃ ca saṃprekṣya gāṇḍīvasyeṣugocare ||
kiṃ tadā kuravaḥ kṛtyaṃ vidadhuḥ kālacoditāḥ ||
dāruṇaikāyane kāle kathaṃ vā pratipedire ||
grastān hi kauravān manye mṛtyunā tāta saṃgatān ||
vikramo hi raṇe teṣāṃ na tathā dṛśyate 'dya vai ||
Those two, having passed through there, fearless and swift, and having looked upon the king of Sindhu already within the range of Gandiva's arrows — what then did the Kurus, driven by time, undertake, or how did they conduct themselves in that dreadful, hopeless hour? For I deem the Kauravas already seized, fallen in with death, O dear one, since their valor in battle is not seen the same now.
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Dhritarashtra perceives: his sons "mṛtyunā saṃgatān," have already met with death, for their valor has dimmed. The blind man sees with his heart what is not yet apparent to the sighted. It is telling that the father is the first to sense the doom of his line. The verse teaches that a failing of spirit is the surest sign of an approaching fall: where valor "na tathā dṛśyate," is no longer what it was, there strength too is at its end, for an army is sustained not by weapons but by liveliness of spirit, and its fading foretells the end.