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दुःशासनं तु समरे प्रतिविन्ध्यो महारथः ॥
नवभिः सायकैर् विद्ध्वा पुनर् विव्याध सप्तभिः ॥
तत्र भारत पुत्रस् ते कृतवान् कर्म दुष्करम् ॥
प्रतिविन्ध्यहयान् उग्रैः पातयाम् आस यच् छरैः ॥
सारथिं चास्य भल्लेन ध्वजं च समपातयत् ॥
रथं च शतशो राजन् व्यधमत् तस्य धन्विनः ॥
पताकाश् च स तूणीरान् रश्मीन् योक्त्राणि चाभिभो ॥
चिच्छेद तिलशः क्रुद्धः शरैः संनतपर्वभिः ॥
duḥśāsanaṃ tu samare prativindhyo mahārathaḥ ||
navabhiḥ sāyakair viddhvā punar vivyādha saptabhiḥ ||
tatra bhārata putras te kṛtavān karma duṣkaram ||
prativindhyahayān ugraiḥ pātayām āsa yac charaiḥ ||
sārathiṃ cāsya bhallena dhvajaṃ ca samapātayat ||
rathaṃ ca śataśo rājan vyadhamat tasya dhanvinaḥ ||
patākāś ca sa tūṇīrān raśmīn yoktrāṇi cābhibho ||
ciccheda tilaśaḥ kruddhaḥ śaraiḥ saṃnataparvabhiḥ ||
And Duhshasana, in battle, Prativindhya, great warrior, having pierced with nine arrows, once more pierced with seven. There, O Bharata, your son accomplished a difficult deed: he felled Prativindhya's horses with fierce arrows. And his charioteer with a broad-headed arrow, and struck down the banner, and shattered the chariot into hundreds of pieces belonging to that archer, O king. The pennants and quivers, the reins and harness, O lord, he hacked into pieces, enraged, with smooth-jointed arrows.
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Duhshasana — usually the shameless persecutor of Draupadi — here shows genuine martial prowess, dismantling his opponent's chariot piece by piece. It is notable that the Mahabharata does not deny courage even to the most unrighteous: a villain in intent can be brave in deed. The verse teaches that valor and virtue are not the same thing: courage does not redeem wrongdoing, but wrongdoing does not cancel courage either; and a person must be judged by the whole of his nature, not by a single facet of it.