शोणितेन परिक्लिन्नो रथाद् भूमिम् अरिंदमः ॥
लोहिताङ्ग इवादित्यो दुर्दर्शः समपद्यत ॥
एवं तं निहतं संख्ये ददृशे सैनिको जनः ॥
धृष्टद्युम्नस् तु तद् राजन् भारद्वाजशिरो महत् ॥
तावकानां महेष्वासः प्रमुखे तत् समाक्षिपत् ॥
ते तु दृष्ट्वा शिरो राजन् भारद्वाजस्य तावकाः ॥
पलायनकृतोत्साहा दुद्रुवुः सर्वतोदिशम् ॥
śoṇitena pariklinno rathād bhūmim ariṃdamaḥ ||
lohitāṅga ivādityo durdarśaḥ samapadyata ||
evaṃ taṃ nihataṃ saṃkhye dadṛśe sainiko janaḥ ||
dhṛṣṭadyumnas tu tad rājan bhāradvājaśiro mahat ||
tāvakānāṃ maheṣvāsaḥ pramukhe tat samākṣipat ||
te tu dṛṣṭvā śiro rājan bhāradvājasya tāvakāḥ ||
palāyanakṛtotsāhā dudruvuḥ sarvatodiśam ||
Drenched in blood, [thrown] from his chariot to the ground, the subduer of foes became, like the red-bodied sun, hard to look upon; thus the soldiery saw him, slain in battle. Dhrishtadyumna, however, o king, the great archer, cast that great head of Bharadvaja before your [warriors]. They, having seen the head of Bharadvaja, o king, your [warriors], inflamed toward flight, rushed off in all directions.
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The teacher's head, flung before the ranks, turns the army to flight: the one on whom the spirit of the Kurus rested has fallen. Significant is the comparison of the fallen one to a crimson luminary -- even in blood and dishonor Drona shines with fearsome majesty. The verse teaches that an army lives not by numbers but by its center of strength; and once the root is cut, the foliage falls of itself -- outward might without a core collapses in a single instant.