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प्रगाढम् अञ्जोगतिभिर् नाराचैर् अभिताडिताः ॥
निपेतुर् द्विरदा भूमौ द्विशृङ्गा इव पर्वताः ॥
निकृत्तैर् हस्तिहस्तैश् च विचलद्भिर् इतस् ततः ॥
रराज वसुधा कीर्णा विसर्पद्भिर् इवोरगैः ॥
क्षिप्तैः काञ्चनदण्डैश् च नृपच्छत्रैः क्षितिर् बभौ ॥
द्यौर् इवोदितचन्द्रार्का ग्रहाकीर्णा युगक्षये ॥
प्रवृद्धध्वजमण्डूकां भेरीविस्तीर्णकच्छपाम् ॥
छत्रहंसावलीजुष्टां फेनचामरमालिनीम् ॥
pragāḍham añjogatibhir nārācair abhitāḍitāḥ ||
nipetur dviradā bhūmau dviśṛṅgā iva parvatāḥ ||
nikṛttair hastihastaiś ca vicaladbhir itas tataḥ ||
rarāja vasudhā kīrṇā visarpadbhir ivoragaiḥ ||
kṣiptaiḥ kāñcanadaṇḍaiś ca nṛpacchatraiḥ kṣitir babhau ||
dyaur ivoditacandrārkā grahākīrṇā yugakṣaye ||
pravṛddhadhvajamaṇḍūkāṃ bherīvistīrṇakacchapām ||
chatrahaṃsāvalījuṣṭāṃ phenacāmaramālinīm ||
Struck deep by straight-flying narachas, the elephants fell to the ground like twin-peaked mountains. And the earth shone, strewn with severed elephant trunks writhing here and there like crawling serpents. And with the cast-down golden staffs of royal parasols, the earth shone like the sky with moon and sun risen, strewn with planets at the end of the world. [A river of blood:] with banner-frogs raised aloft, with kettledrum-turtles, peopled with parasols like flocks of geese, garlanded with foam like fly-whisks...
ecc50187bdb0 · publicado 19 jul 2026, 16:40:45 UTC
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The battlefield turns into a river of blood, where everything — banners, kettledrums, parasols — becomes its inhabitants: an image of war as a monstrous flood. It is telling that severed trunks appear "like crawling serpents," and parasols "like planets at the end of the world": horror clothed in cosmic comparisons. The verse teaches that war reaches a destruction of universal scale; and the field turned into a river of blood is a visible image of the end of the world, wrought by human hands.