संजय उवाच
जानन् पितुः स निधनं सिंहलाङ्गूलकेतनः ॥
सक्रोधो भयम् उत्सृज्य अभिदुद्राव पार्षतम् ॥
अभिद्रुत्य च विंशत्या क्षुद्रकाणां नरर्षभः ॥
पञ्चभिश् चातिवेगेन विव्याध पुरुषर्षभम् ॥
धृष्टद्युम्नस् ततो राजञ् ज्वलन्तम् इव पावकम् ॥
द्रोणपुत्रं त्रिषष्ट्या तु राजन् विव्याध पत्रिणाम् ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
jānan pituḥ sa nidhanaṃ siṃhalāṅgūlaketanaḥ ||
sakrodho bhayam utsṛjya abhidudrāva pārṣatam ||
abhidrutya ca viṃśatyā kṣudrakāṇāṃ nararṣabhaḥ ||
pañcabhiś cātivegena vivyādha puruṣarṣabham ||
dhṛṣṭadyumnas tato rājañ jvalantam iva pāvakam ||
droṇaputraṃ triṣaṣṭyā tu rājan vivyādha patriṇām ||
Knowing his father's death, [he,] with a lion's tail on his banner, wrathful, casting off fear, rushed at Parshata. And, attacking with twenty small arrows [kshudrakas], the bull among men, and with five more, with great force, pierced the bull among men [Dhrishtadyumna]. Dhrishtadyumna then, O king, pierced the son of Drona, blazing like fire, with sixty-three arrows, O king.
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Ashvatthaman, "casting off fear," hurls himself at his father's killer: grief turns into fearless rage. It is significant that he attacks Dhrishtadyumna precisely -- fate brings the avenger face to face with the one responsible. The verse teaches that grief become wrath knows no fear for itself; and the duel of the killer with the slain man's son is a visible continuation of that circle of violence which cannot be broken while both remain alive.