संनद्धो ह्य् अर्जुनो याति विवृत्य परमेषुधी ॥
गाण्डीवं मुहुर् आदत्ते निःश्वसंश् च निरीक्षते ॥
गदां गुर्वीं समुद्यम्य त्वरितश् च वृकोदरः ॥
स्वरथं योजयित्वाशु निर्यात इति नः श्रुतम् ॥
नकुलः खड्गम् आदाय चर्म चाप्य् अष्टचन्द्रकम् ॥
सहदेवश् च राजा च चक्रुर् आकारम् इङ्गितैः ॥
ते त्व् आस्थाय रथान् सर्वे बहुशस्त्रपरिच्छदान् ॥
अभिघ्नन्तो रथव्रातान् सेनायोगाय निर्ययुः ॥
saṃnaddho hy arjuno yāti vivṛtya parameṣudhī ||
gāṇḍīvaṃ muhur ādatte niḥśvasaṃś ca nirīkṣate ||
gadāṃ gurvīṃ samudyamya tvaritaś ca vṛkodaraḥ ||
svarathaṃ yojayitvāśu niryāta iti naḥ śrutam ||
nakulaḥ khaḍgam ādāya carma cāpy aṣṭacandrakam ||
sahadevaś ca rājā ca cakrur ākāram iṅgitaiḥ ||
te tv āsthāya rathān sarve bahuśastraparicchadān ||
abhighnanto rathavrātān senāyogāya niryayuḥ ||
[Duryodhana:] "For Arjuna advances armed, his excellent quiver drawn open, again and again grasping the Gandiva, and, breathing heavily, looks about. And Vrikodara, hastily raising his heavy mace, having yoked his own chariot, has set out — so we have heard. Nakula, taking up his sword and his shield marked with eight moons, and Sahadeva, and the king, have shown by their bearing a warlike aspect. All of them, mounted on chariots equipped with abundant weapons, have set forth to array themselves for battle."
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Duryodhana paints a fearsome picture of the Pandavas' advance — yet all of this, by his own word, is only what "we have heard": fear depicts the enemy already armed before he has even taken up arms. Thus guilt conjures phantoms of retribution and is frightened by its own shadow, hastening toward new evil in order to forestall an imagined punishment. It is telling that the warlike ardor he attributes to them would be nothing but righteous wrath for the outrage committed — yet the guilty man cannot distinguish just vengeance from enmity. The verse teaches that the sinner's fear outruns events, embellishing the threat; that an unclean conscience turns caution into panic, and panic into fresh treachery; and that the criminal who conjures up the image of an avenging enemy rushes to strike first — and thereby brings closer the very thing he dreads.