तम् अन्तकम् इवायस्तम् आपतन्तं वृकोदरः ॥
त्यक्त्वा प्राणान् अभिक्रुध्य विव्याध नवभिः शरैः ॥
तस्य वेगम् असंसह्यं दृष्ट्वा कर्णस्य पाण्डवः ॥
महतश् च शरौघांस् तान् नैवाव्यथत वीर्यवान् ॥
ततो विधम्याधिरथेः शरजालानि पाण्डवः ॥
विव्याध कर्णं विंशत्या पुनर् अन्यैः शितैः शरैः ॥
यथैव हि शरैः पार्थः सूतपुत्रेण छादितः ॥
तथैव कर्णं समरे छादयाम् आस पाण्डवः ॥
tam antakam ivāyastam āpatantaṃ vṛkodaraḥ ||
tyaktvā prāṇān abhikrudhya vivyādha navabhiḥ śaraiḥ ||
tasya vegam asaṃsahyaṃ dṛṣṭvā karṇasya pāṇḍavaḥ ||
mahataś ca śaraughāṃs tān naivāvyathata vīryavān ||
tato vidhamyādhiratheḥ śarajālāni pāṇḍavaḥ ||
vivyādha karṇaṃ viṃśatyā punar anyaiḥ śitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
yathaiva hi śaraiḥ pārthaḥ sūtaputreṇa chāditaḥ ||
tathaiva karṇaṃ samare chādayām āsa pāṇḍavaḥ ||
As he rushed on like a straining Antaka, Vrikodara, scorning his own life, in fury pierced him with nine arrows. Seeing Karna's unbearable onslaught and those mighty floods of arrows, the valiant Pandava did not waver in the least. Then, scattering the son of Adhiratha's nets of arrows, the Pandava pierced Karna with twenty more, and again with other sharp arrows. For just as Partha had been enveloped in arrows by the charioteer's son, so too did the Pandava shower Karna in the battle.
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Bhima, 'scorning his own life,' did not waver before the unbearable onslaught, and repaid his enemy in the same measure. It is telling that his fearlessness is not recklessness but relinquishment: one who has already surrendered his very life cannot be shaken. The verse teaches that firmness amid a storm of blows is born of readiness to die; and one who does not cling to life turns back the flood hurled at him, measure for measure.