राजा द्रोणाय चोत्सृष्टः सैन्धवश् चानिपातितः ॥
प्रत्युद्यातश् च शैनेयम् एष भूरिश्रवा रणे ॥
सो ऽयं गुरुतरो भारः सैन्धवान् मे समाहितः ॥
ज्ञातव्यश् च हि मे राजा रक्षितव्यश् च सात्यकिः ॥
जयद्रथश् च हन्तव्यो लम्बते च दिवाकरः ॥
श्रान्तश् चैष महाबाहुर् अल्पप्राणश् च सांप्रतम् ॥
rājā droṇāya cotsṛṣṭaḥ saindhavaś cānipātitaḥ ||
pratyudyātaś ca śaineyam eṣa bhūriśravā raṇe ||
so 'yaṃ gurutaro bhāraḥ saindhavān me samāhitaḥ ||
jñātavyaś ca hi me rājā rakṣitavyaś ca sātyakiḥ ||
jayadrathaś ca hantavyo lambate ca divākaraḥ ||
śrāntaś caiṣa mahābāhur alpaprāṇaś ca sāṃpratam ||
"The king [Yudhishthira] was left facing Drona, and Saindhava is not felled, and there, in battle, Bhurishravas has advanced against Shaineya. This, then, is the heavier burden laid upon me because of Saindhava; and indeed I must learn of the king, and Satyaki must be protected. And Jayadratha must be slain, and the sun is sinking; and this mighty-armed one [Satyaki] is weary and of little strength now."
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Arjuna lists the burdens converging at once: the abandoned king, the unslain Jayadratha, the setting sun, the exhausted friend before a fresh foe. It is significant that he thinks not of glory but of duty — of all that must be done and safeguarded. The verse teaches that the burden of one responsible lies not in a single task but in their sum; and the mature man sees not one feat of his own but the whole tangled knot of obligations that must be untied in time.