हन्याम् अहं द्रोणम् ऋते हि लोकं; न ते भयं विद्यते पाण्डवेभ्यः ॥
ततो हि ते लब्धतमं च राज्यं; क्षयं गताः पाण्डवाश् चेति भावः ॥
स दर्पपूर्णो न समीक्षसे त्वम्; अनर्थम् आत्मन्य् अपि वर्तमानम् ॥
तस्माद् अहं ते प्रथमं समूहे; हन्ता समक्षं कुरुवृद्धम् एव ॥
सूर्योदये युक्तसेनः प्रतीक्ष्य; ध्वजी रथी रक्ष च सत्यसंधम् ॥
अहं हि वः पश्यतां द्वीपम् एनं; रथाद् भीष्मं पातयितास्मि बाणैः ॥
श्वोभूते कत्थनावाक्यं विज्ञास्यति सुयोधनः ॥
अर्दितं शरजालेन मया दृष्ट्वा पितामहम् ॥
यद् उक्तश् च सभामध्ये पुरुषो ह्रस्वदर्शनः ॥
क्रुद्धेन भीमसेनेन भ्राता दुःशासनस् तव ॥
hanyām ahaṃ droṇam ṛte hi lokaṃ; na te bhayaṃ vidyate pāṇḍavebhyaḥ ||
tato hi te labdhatamaṃ ca rājyaṃ; kṣayaṃ gatāḥ pāṇḍavāś ceti bhāvaḥ ||
sa darpapūrṇo na samīkṣase tvam; anartham ātmany api vartamānam ||
tasmād ahaṃ te prathamaṃ samūhe; hantā samakṣaṃ kuruvṛddham eva ||
sūryodaye yuktasenaḥ pratīkṣya; dhvajī rathī rakṣa ca satyasaṃdham ||
ahaṃ hi vaḥ paśyatāṃ dvīpam enaṃ; rathād bhīṣmaṃ pātayitāsmi bāṇaiḥ ||
śvobhūte katthanāvākyaṃ vijñāsyati suyodhanaḥ ||
arditaṃ śarajālena mayā dṛṣṭvā pitāmaham ||
yad uktaś ca sabhāmadhye puruṣo hrasvadarśanaḥ ||
kruddhena bhīmasenena bhrātā duḥśāsanas tava ||
"He, true to his word and not weak in spirit, said to you among the Kurus, delighting them: 'I shall destroy the army of the Pandavas and the Shalveyas — that is my burden. Save for Drona, I could destroy the whole world; you need have no fear of the Pandavas. So the kingdom is already won for you, and the Pandavas are as good as destroyed' — such is your thought. Full of pride, you do not see the calamity already standing before you. Therefore I shall be the first to kill, in your very army, before your own eyes, none other than the elder of the Kuru line. At sunrise, having made the army ready, wait; stand on your chariot with your banner and guard the one who is true to his vow. Before your very eyes I shall bring down from his chariot with my arrows that island of refuge, Bhishma."
c875d7374170 · प्रकाशित 17 जुल॰ 2026, 6:17:52 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Arjuna answers not on the level of insult but on the level of the kshatriya standard: a man relies on his own strength, not on hiding behind another's. His decisive blow strikes at the very foundation of Duryodhana's confidence: Bhishma, on whose might that confidence rests, will fall first. After the words of Krishna and Arjuna, war becomes an inevitable morning's business, and the order to stand ready already sounds like the opening of battle.