हते द्रोणे निरुत्साहान् कुरून् पाण्डवसृञ्जयाः ॥
अभ्यद्रवन् महावेगास् ततः सैन्यं व्यदीर्यत ॥
निहता हयभूयिष्ठाः संग्रामे निशितैः शरैः ॥
तावका निहते द्रोणे गतासव इवाभवन् ॥
पराजयम् अथावाप्य परत्र च महद् भयम् ॥
उभयेनैव ते हीना नाविन्दन् धृतिम् आत्मनः ॥
अन्विच्छन्तः शरीरं तु भारद्वाजस्य पार्थिवाः ॥
नाध्यगच्छंस् तदा राजन् कबन्धायुतसंकुले ॥
hate droṇe nirutsāhān kurūn pāṇḍavasṛñjayāḥ ||
abhyadravan mahāvegās tataḥ sainyaṃ vyadīryata ||
nihatā hayabhūyiṣṭhāḥ saṃgrāme niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
tāvakā nihate droṇe gatāsava ivābhavan ||
parājayam athāvāpya paratra ca mahad bhayam ||
ubhayenaiva te hīnā nāvindan dhṛtim ātmanaḥ ||
anvicchantaḥ śarīraṃ tu bhāradvājasya pārthivāḥ ||
nādhyagacchaṃs tadā rājan kabandhāyutasaṃkule ||
When Drona was slain, the Pandavas and Srinjayas attacked the Kurus, fallen in spirit, with great swiftness; then the army [of the Kurus] broke apart. Slain, mostly cavalry, in battle by sharp arrows, your [warriors], when Drona was slain, became as if lifeless. Having met defeat [here] and great fear in the other [world], deprived of both, they found no steadiness within themselves. The kings, seeking the body of Bharadvaja, did not find it then, o king, amid the heap of tens of thousands of headless bodies.
3e3f5ec77eaa · publicado 19 jul 2026, 17:08:17 UTC
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The Kauravas are "deprived of both" -- defeated here and terrified of the world beyond: an unrighteous deed robs one of peace on both sides of death. Significant is that the teacher's body is lost among a heap of headless corpses -- the outward indistinguishability of the great and the unknown in the common slaughter. The verse teaches that war without dharma robs twice over -- it takes both victory and hope of a good end; and death makes bodies equal, while only the departed spirit is distinguished, according to its deserts.