न कथं चन शस्त्राणि मोक्तव्यानीह केन चित् ॥
अहम् आवारयिष्यामि द्रोणपुत्रास्त्रम् आशुगैः ॥
अथ वाप्य् अनया गुर्व्या हेमविग्रहया रणे ॥
कालवद् विचरिष्यामि द्रौणेर् अस्त्रं विशातयन् ॥
न हि मे विक्रमे तुल्यः कश् चिद् अस्ति पुमान् इह ॥
यथैव सवितुस् तुल्यं ज्योतिर् अन्यन् न विद्यते ॥
na kathaṃ cana śastrāṇi moktavyānīha kena cit ||
aham āvārayiṣyāmi droṇaputrāstram āśugaiḥ ||
atha vāpy anayā gurvyā hemavigrahayā raṇe ||
kālavad vicariṣyāmi drauṇer astraṃ viśātayan ||
na hi me vikrame tulyaḥ kaś cid asti pumān iha ||
yathaiva savitus tulyaṃ jyotir anyan na vidyate ||
[Bhima said:] "No one here should lay down his weapons on any account; I shall repel the weapon of Drona's son with swift arrows. Or else, with this heavy, golden mace, I shall range through the battle like Kala [Time itself], crushing Drauni's weapon. For in valor there is no man here my equal, just as there is no other light equal to the sun."
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Bhima alone rejects the saving counsel: the pride of valor will not let him submit. It is telling that he compares himself to the incomparable sun — self-regard swollen to the point of denying any equal at all. The verse teaches that pride in strength is blind to the limits of strength; and one who from self-conceit rejects saving wisdom prepares his own misfortune — for there is a might before which even the mightiest is powerless, and deliverance comes only through humility, not through obstinacy.