त्रिषष्ट्या चतुरो ऽस्याश्वान् सप्तभिः सारथिं शरैः ॥
विव्याध निशितैस् तूर्णं सात्यकिः कृतवर्मणः ॥
सुवर्णपुङ्खं विशिखं समाधाय स सात्यकिः ॥
व्यसृजत् तं महाज्वालं संक्रुद्धम् इव पन्नगम् ॥
सो ऽविशत् कृतवर्माणं यमदण्डोपमः शरः ॥
जाम्बूनदविचित्रं च वर्म निर्भिद्य भानुमत् ॥
अभ्यगाद् धरणीम् उग्रो रुधिरेण समुक्षितः ॥
triṣaṣṭyā caturo 'syāśvān saptabhiḥ sārathiṃ śaraiḥ ||
vivyādha niśitais tūrṇaṃ sātyakiḥ kṛtavarmaṇaḥ ||
suvarṇapuṅkhaṃ viśikhaṃ samādhāya sa sātyakiḥ ||
vyasṛjat taṃ mahājvālaṃ saṃkruddham iva pannagam ||
so 'viśat kṛtavarmāṇaṃ yamadaṇḍopamaḥ śaraḥ ||
jāmbūnadavicitraṃ ca varma nirbhidya bhānumat ||
abhyagād dharaṇīm ugro rudhireṇa samukṣitaḥ ||
Satyaki swiftly pierced Kritavarman's four horses with sixty-three sharp arrows, and his charioteer with seven. Fitting a gold-feathered shaft, Satyaki loosed it, blazing greatly, like an enraged serpent. That arrow, like the rod of Yama, entered Kritavarman, piercing his gold-inlaid, gleaming armor.
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Satyaki's arrow, "yamadaṇḍopamaḥ," like the rod of Yama, pierces the gilded armor: neither its brilliance nor its strength turns aside the destined blow. It is telling that magnificent protection is powerless before the resolve of the striker. The verse teaches that outer strength does not save one from him whose blow carries fate itself: gold and the gleam of armor are mere adornment, not defense, when the arrow flies, like the rod of Yama, by the highest decree.