आयसानि च चक्राणि भुशुण्ड्यः शक्तितोमराः ॥
पतन्त्य् अविरलाः शूलाः शतघ्न्यः पट्टिशास् तथा ॥
तद् उग्रम् अतिरौद्रं च दृष्ट्वा युद्धं नराधिपाः ॥
पुत्राश् च तव योधाश् च व्यथिता विप्रदुद्रुवुः ॥
तत्रैको ऽस्त्रबलश्लाघी कर्णो मानी न विव्यथे ॥
व्यधमच् च शरैर् मायां घटोत्कचविनिर्मिताम् ॥
मायायां तु प्रहीणायाम् अमर्षात् स घटोत्कचः ॥
विससर्ज शरान् घोरान् सूतपुत्रं त आविशन् ॥
āyasāni ca cakrāṇi bhuśuṇḍyaḥ śaktitomarāḥ ||
patanty aviralāḥ śūlāḥ śataghnyaḥ paṭṭiśās tathā ||
tad ugram atiraudraṃ ca dṛṣṭvā yuddhaṃ narādhipāḥ ||
putrāś ca tava yodhāś ca vyathitā vipradudruvuḥ ||
tatraiko 'strabalaślāghī karṇo mānī na vivyathe ||
vyadhamac ca śarair māyāṃ ghaṭotkacavinirmitām ||
māyāyāṃ tu prahīṇāyām amarṣāt sa ghaṭotkacaḥ ||
visasarja śarān ghorān sūtaputraṃ ta āviśan ||
Iron discs, bhushundis, spears and darts, spears fell thick and fast, along with shataghnis and pattishas. Seeing that terrible and most ferocious battle, the lords of men, and your sons, and the warriors, terrified, fled away. There, one alone, proud in the strength of his weapons, Karna, proud, did not falter, and dispelled with arrows the illusion wrought by Ghatotkacha. And when the illusion had vanished, in fury Ghatotkacha loosed terrible arrows; they struck into the son of the suta.
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While the whole army flees in terror, Karna alone does not falter and dispels the illusion with arrows: the steadfastness of one man stands firm where the multitude collapses. It is telling that the illusion fell before calm courage. The verse teaches that fear is a powerful weapon, yet powerless against an unshaken spirit; and one composed man amid a fleeing host can overturn what terrified thousands -- for steadfastness does not yield to deception but dispels it.