संजय उवाच
नकुलं रभसं युद्धे निघ्नन्तं वाहिनीं तव ॥
अभ्ययात् सौबलः क्रुद्धस् तिष्ठ तिष्ठेति चाब्रवीत् ॥
कृतवैरौ तु तौ वीराव् अन्योन्यवधकाङ्क्षिणौ ॥
शरैः पूर्णायतोत्सृष्टैर् अन्योन्यम् अभिजघ्नतुः ॥
यथैव सौबलः क्षिप्रं शरवर्षाणि मुञ्चति ॥
तथैव नकुलो राजञ् शिक्षां संदर्शयन् युधि ॥
ताव् उभौ समरे शूरौ शरकण्टकिनौ तदा ॥
व्यराजेतां महाराज कण्टकैर् इव शाल्मली ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
nakulaṃ rabhasaṃ yuddhe nighnantaṃ vāhinīṃ tava ||
abhyayāt saubalaḥ kruddhas tiṣṭha tiṣṭheti cābravīt ||
kṛtavairau tu tau vīrāv anyonyavadhakāṅkṣiṇau ||
śaraiḥ pūrṇāyatotsṛṣṭair anyonyam abhijaghnatuḥ ||
yathaiva saubalaḥ kṣipraṃ śaravarṣāṇi muñcati ||
tathaiva nakulo rājañ śikṣāṃ saṃdarśayan yudhi ||
tāv ubhau samare śūrau śarakaṇṭakinau tadā ||
vyarājetāṃ mahārāja kaṇṭakair iva śālmalī ||
Enraged, Saubala [Shakuni] attacked Nakula, fierce in battle, who was smiting your army, and shouted, "Stop, stop!" The two heroes, having become enemies, each longing to slay the other, struck one another with arrows loosed at full draw. As Saubala swiftly let loose showers of arrows, so too did Nakula, O king, displaying his skill in battle. Both those heroes in combat, bristling with arrows then, shone, O great king, like a shalmali tree bristling with thorns.
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Shakuni - instigator of the whole feud, the man who cast the dice - now meets Nakula: the seed of deceit meets the fruit of war. It is significant that Nakula's skill is called shiksha, "training": valor here is not wild passion but honed craft. The verse teaches that mastery is born of learning and practice, not of daring alone; and in battle what shows itself is not impulse but long discipline - the fruit of labor by which a warrior has trained his hand and eye.