प्रदीप्तोल्कम् अभवच् चान्तरिक्षं; देहेषु भूरीण्य् अपतन् वयांसि ॥
यत् पिङ्गलज्येन किरीटमाली; क्रुद्धो रिपून् आजगवेन हन्ति ॥
किरीटमाली महता महायशाः; शरासनेनास्य शरान् अनीकजित् ॥
हयप्रवेकोत्तमनागधूर्गतान्; कुरुप्रवीरान् इषुभिर् न्यपातयत् ॥
गदाश् च गुर्वीः परिघान् अयस्मयान्; असींश् च शक्तीश् च रणे नराधिपाः ॥
महान्ति शस्त्राणि च भीमदर्शनाः; प्रगृह्य पार्थं सहसाभिदुद्रुवुः ॥
स तान् उदीर्णान् सरथाश्ववारणान्; पदातिसंघांश् च महाधनुर्धरः ॥
विपन्नसर्वायुधजीवितान् रणे; चकार वीरो यमराष्ट्रवर्धनान् ॥
pradīptolkam abhavac cāntarikṣaṃ; deheṣu bhūrīṇy apatan vayāṃsi ||
yat piṅgalajyena kirīṭamālī; kruddho ripūn ājagavena hanti ||
kirīṭamālī mahatā mahāyaśāḥ; śarāsanenāsya śarān anīkajit ||
hayapravekottamanāgadhūrgatān; kurupravīrān iṣubhir nyapātayat ||
gadāś ca gurvīḥ parighān ayasmayān; asīṃś ca śaktīś ca raṇe narādhipāḥ ||
mahānti śastrāṇi ca bhīmadarśanāḥ; pragṛhya pārthaṃ sahasābhidudruvuḥ ||
sa tān udīrṇān sarathāśvavāraṇān; padātisaṃghāṃś ca mahādhanurdharaḥ ||
vipannasarvāyudhajīvitān raṇe; cakāra vīro yamarāṣṭravardhanān ||
And the sky blazed with meteors, and birds fell in great numbers upon bodies, as the Diademed One, enraged, with his tawny-stringed bow, slew his enemies with [the bow] Ajagava. The Diademed One, of great fame, victor of armies, with his great bow — with his own arrows — struck down with arrows the heroes of Kuru who rode upon the choicest horses and in the yoke of the finest elephants. And heavy maces, iron bars, swords, and shaktis, and great weapons terrible to behold — the kings, seizing them, suddenly rushed upon Partha. He, the great bowman, the hero, turned those who had surged forth — with their chariots, horses, elephants, and hosts of foot-soldiers — into increasers of the kingdom of Yama, in that battle, deprived of all weapons and life.
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The chapter closes with an image of apocalypse — a sky ablaze with meteors, birds falling from it: Arjuna's onslaught takes on the shape of universal doom. It is significant that the kings who seize maces and swords only 'increase the kingdom of Yama': those who rise against the inevitable merely walk into its harvest. The verse teaches that there is a power before which all weapons are in vain; and one who in blind stubbornness hurls himself against inescapable retribution does not turn it aside, but only swells the number of its victims.