तस्याः प्रतिनिपातेन भीमस्य विपुलो ध्वजः ॥
पपात सारथिश् चास्य मुमोह गदया हतः ॥
स कर्णे सायकान् अष्टौ व्यसृजत् क्रोधमूर्छितः ॥
ध्वजे शरासने चैव शरावापे च भारत ॥
ततः पुनस् तु राधेयो हयान् अस्य रथेषुभिः ॥
ऋष्यवर्णाञ् जघानाशु तथोभौ पार्ष्णिसारथी ॥
स विपन्नरथो भीमो नकुलस्याप्लुतो रथम् ॥
हरिर् यथा गिरेः शृङ्गं समाक्रामद् अरिंदमः ॥
tasyāḥ pratinipātena bhīmasya vipulo dhvajaḥ ||
papāta sārathiś cāsya mumoha gadayā hataḥ ||
sa karṇe sāyakān aṣṭau vyasṛjat krodhamūrchitaḥ ||
dhvaje śarāsane caiva śarāvāpe ca bhārata ||
tataḥ punas tu rādheyo hayān asya ratheṣubhiḥ ||
ṛṣyavarṇāñ jaghānāśu tathobhau pārṣṇisārathī ||
sa vipannaratho bhīmo nakulasyāpluto ratham ||
harir yathā gireḥ śṛṅgaṃ samākrāmad ariṃdamaḥ ||
Karna pierced the mace in return, and again with other arrows; it rebounded back toward Bhima. By its rebound Bhima's great banner fell, and his charioteer lost consciousness, struck down by the mace. Bhima, maddened with rage, let fly eight arrows at Karna -- at his banner, his bow, and his quiver, O Bharata. Then Radheya again swiftly killed Bhima's horses, of antelope hue, with arrows meant for chariots, and both his flank charioteers as well. Bhima, his chariot now destroyed, leapt onto Nakula's chariot.
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The mace hurled by Bhima rebounds and topples his own banner, stunning his own charioteer: the weapon turns against the one who cast it. It is telling that the blow deflected by Karna returns as misfortune upon Bhima himself. The verse teaches that a furious onslaught can strike back at the attacker himself; force loosed without fortune ricochets upon its own -- a lesson that not everything in battle bows to sheer power, and that blind rage sometimes destroys more surely than the enemy does.