संजय उवाच
प्रायोपविष्टे तु हते पुत्रे सात्यकिना ततः ॥
सोमदत्तो भृशं क्रुद्धः सात्यकिं वाक्यम् अब्रवीत् ॥
क्षत्रधर्मः पुरा दृष्टो यस् तु देवैर् महात्मभिः ॥
तं त्वं सात्वत संत्यज्य दस्युधर्मे कथं रतः ॥
पराङ्मुखाय दीनाय न्यस्तशस्त्राय याचते ॥
क्षत्रधर्मरतः प्राज्ञः कथं नु प्रहरेद् रणे ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
prāyopaviṣṭe tu hate putre sātyakinā tataḥ ||
somadatto bhṛśaṃ kruddhaḥ sātyakiṃ vākyam abravīt ||
kṣatradharmaḥ purā dṛṣṭo yas tu devair mahātmabhiḥ ||
taṃ tvaṃ sātvata saṃtyajya dasyudharme kathaṃ rataḥ ||
parāṅmukhāya dīnāya nyastaśastrāya yācate ||
kṣatradharmarataḥ prājñaḥ kathaṃ nu prahared raṇe ||
When his son [Bhurishravas], seated in prāya, had been killed by Satyaki, Somadatta, greatly enraged, spoke to Satyaki: 'The kshatriya dharma, seen of old by the gods, great of soul — that you, Satvata, have cast aside; how can you delight in the dharma of a bandit? At one who has turned away, wretched, who has laid down his weapons and pleads for mercy — how could a wise man, delighting in kshatriya dharma, strike in battle?'
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Somadatta charges Satyaki with 'the dharma of bandits' — striking one who has laid down his weapons. It is telling that the law of honor is called 'seen by the gods': the rules of battle are not human convention but a heavenly ordinance. The verse teaches that there are deeds which dharma itself brands as banditry, however justified by vengeance they may seem; and one who raises a hand against the unarmed answers not to his enemy but to the law of heaven.