द्रुपदं तु सहानीकं द्रोणप्रेप्सुं महारथम् ॥
वृषसेनो ऽभ्ययात् तूर्णं किरञ् शरशतैस् तदा ॥
यज्ञसेनस् तु समरे कर्णपुत्रं महारथम् ॥
षष्ट्या शराणां विव्याध बाह्वोर् उरसि चानघ ॥
वृषसेनस् तु संक्रुद्धो यज्ञसेनं रथे स्थितम् ॥
बहुभिः सायकैस् तीक्ष्णैर् आजघान स्तनान्तरे ॥
ताव् उभौ शरनुन्नाङ्गौ शरकण्टकिनौ रणे ॥
व्यभ्राजेतां महाराज श्वाविधौ शललैर् इव ॥
drupadaṃ tu sahānīkaṃ droṇaprepsuṃ mahāratham ||
vṛṣaseno 'bhyayāt tūrṇaṃ kirañ śaraśatais tadā ||
yajñasenas tu samare karṇaputraṃ mahāratham ||
ṣaṣṭyā śarāṇāṃ vivyādha bāhvor urasi cānagha ||
vṛṣasenas tu saṃkruddho yajñasenaṃ rathe sthitam ||
bahubhiḥ sāyakais tīkṣṇair ājaghāna stanāntare ||
tāv ubhau śaranunnāṅgau śarakaṇṭakinau raṇe ||
vyabhrājetāṃ mahārāja śvāvidhau śalalair iva ||
And Drupada with his army, straining toward Drona, great warrior — Vrishasena swiftly attacked, scattering hundreds of arrows then. And Yajnasena [Drupada] in battle pierced Karna's son, great warrior, with sixty arrows, in the arms and in the chest, O sinless one. And Vrishasena, enraged, struck Yajnasena, who stood on the chariot, between the breasts with many sharp arrows. Both, with bodies battered by arrows, bristling with arrows in battle, blazed, O great king, like two porcupines in their quills.
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Karna's son and the aged Drupada meet — youth and old age, equal in daring. It is notable that the warriors, riddled with arrows, are likened to porcupines: their wounds become an adornment. The verse teaches that valor reckons neither with age nor with lineage: the young man fights on equal terms with the elder, and both bear their wounds as marks of honor. In this fratricidal war it is not villains who meet but men of worth — and so the blood spilled is bitter twice over.