भीष्म उवाच
शकुनिर् मातुलस् ते ऽसौ रथ एको नराधिप ॥
प्रसज्य पाण्डवैर् वैरं योत्स्यते नात्र संशयः ॥
एतस्य सैन्या दुर्धर्षाः समरे ऽप्रतियायिनः ॥
विकृतायुधभूयिष्ठा वायुवेगसमा जवे ॥
द्रोणपुत्रो महेष्वासः सर्वेषाम् अति धन्विनाम् ॥
समरे चित्रयोधी च दृढास्त्रश् च महारथः ॥
एतस्य हि महाराज यथा गाण्डीवधन्वनः ॥
शरासनाद् विनिर्मुक्ताः संसक्ता यान्ति सायकाः ॥
नैष शक्यो मया वीरः संख्यातुं रथसत्तमः ॥
निर्दहेद् अपि लोकांस् त्रीन् इच्छन्न् एष महायशाः ॥
bhīṣma uvāca
śakunir mātulas te 'sau ratha eko narādhipa ||
prasajya pāṇḍavair vairaṃ yotsyate nātra saṃśayaḥ ||
etasya sainyā durdharṣāḥ samare 'pratiyāyinaḥ ||
vikṛtāyudhabhūyiṣṭhā vāyuvegasamā jave ||
droṇaputro maheṣvāsaḥ sarveṣām ati dhanvinām ||
samare citrayodhī ca dṛḍhāstraś ca mahārathaḥ ||
etasya hi mahārāja yathā gāṇḍīvadhanvanaḥ ||
śarāsanād vinirmuktāḥ saṃsaktā yānti sāyakāḥ ||
naiṣa śakyo mayā vīraḥ saṃkhyātuṃ rathasattamaḥ ||
nirdahed api lokāṃs trīn icchann eṣa mahāyaśāḥ ||
Bhishma said: Shakuni, that maternal uncle of yours, O lord of men, is a single ratha; having provoked hostility with the Pandavas, he will fight — of this there is no doubt. His troops are hard to overcome in battle, they do not retreat, are armed for the most part with strange weapons, and equal the wind in swiftness. The son of Drona, a great archer, surpasses all bowmen; in battle he is skilled in varied combat, firm in the use of weapons, and is a maharatha. His arrows, O great king, loosed from the bow, fly in an unbroken stream, like the arrows from the Gandiva. I am unable to reckon this hero, the best of charioteers: should he wish it, this man of great renown could burn up even the three worlds.
e0cc0bf7a094 · प्रकाशित 17 जुल॰ 2026, 6:32:37 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Bhishma goes on to weigh not only the warriors' strength but the limits of that strength. Ashvatthaman is nearly boundless in weaponry, yet his attachment to life makes any reckoning of him uncertain; Drona is capable of destroying entire armies, yet his love for Arjuna restrains his hand. In this way the roster of ratha warriors becomes not a dry military ledger but a map of inner knots: valor, attachment, old pacts, past enmity, and personal debts all enter the battle together with the weapons.