विचेतसो हतोत्साहाः कश्मलाभिहतौजसः ॥
आर्तस्वरेण महता पुत्रं ते पर्यवारयन् ॥
रजस्वला वेपमाना वीक्षमाणा दिशो दश ॥
अश्रुकण्ठा यथा दैत्या हिरण्याक्षे पुरा हते ॥
स तैः परिवृतो राजा त्रस्तैः क्षुद्रमृगैर् इव ॥
अशक्नुवन्न् अवस्थातुम् अपायात् तनयस् तव ॥
vicetaso hatotsāhāḥ kaśmalābhihataujasaḥ ||
ārtasvareṇa mahatā putraṃ te paryavārayan ||
rajasvalā vepamānā vīkṣamāṇā diśo daśa ||
aśrukaṇṭhā yathā daityā hiraṇyākṣe purā hate ||
sa taiḥ parivṛto rājā trastaiḥ kṣudramṛgair iva ||
aśaknuvann avasthātum apāyāt tanayas tava ||
Bewildered, downcast in spirit, with their strength struck down by despair, with a great wail of anguish they surrounded your son [Duryodhana]. Covered in dust, trembling, scanning the ten directions, with tears in their throats, like the daityas of old when Hiranyaksha was slain. That king, surrounded by them, terrified like small beasts, unable to stand firm, withdrew -- your son.
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Duryodhana's warriors are likened to the daityas at the fall of Hiranyaksha -- the image of a host bereft of its giant. It is telling that fearsome men are compared to "petty animals": without a leader, valor turns to trembling. The verse teaches that courage resting only on another's strength collapses with its loss; true steadfastness is rooted within -- and so the wise fortify not the ranks around a hero but the spirit in themselves.