तौ दिशागजसंकाशौ ज्वलिताव् इव पावकौ ॥
समासेदतुर् अन्योन्यं शरसंघैर् अरिंदमौ ॥
विधुन्वानौ धनुःश्रेष्ठे संदधानौ च सायकान् ॥
विसृजन्तौ च शतशो गभस्तीन् इव भास्करौ ॥
तापयन्तौ शरैस् तीक्ष्णैर् अन्योन्यं तौ महारथौ ॥
युगान्तप्रतिमौ वीरौ रेजतुर् भास्कराव् इव ॥
tau diśāgajasaṃkāśau jvalitāv iva pāvakau ||
samāsedatur anyonyaṃ śarasaṃghair ariṃdamau ||
vidhunvānau dhanuḥśreṣṭhe saṃdadhānau ca sāyakān ||
visṛjantau ca śataśo gabhastīn iva bhāskarau ||
tāpayantau śarais tīkṣṇair anyonyaṃ tau mahārathau ||
yugāntapratimau vīrau rejatur bhāskarāv iva ||
Those two, like elephants of the quarters, like two blazing fires, closed with one another in masses of arrows, those tamers of foes. Brandishing their finest bows, fitting arrows and releasing them by the hundred like rays from two suns, scorching each other with sharp arrows, those two great warriors, heroes like the end of an age, blazed like two suns.
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The duel of the two warriors is likened to the meeting of two suns, as at the end of a world-age -- an image of terrible, searing equality. It is telling that the epic measures the greatness of a clash in cosmic terms. The verse teaches that the collision of equals in valor is a spectacle of universal scale: where two perfections meet, their combat blazes like colliding stars, and the beauty of such a contest partakes of the grandeur of the worlds themselves.