मेदोरुधिरदिग्धाङ्गो वसामज्जासमुक्षितः ॥
व्यचरत् समरे भीमो दण्डपाणिर् इवान्तकः ॥
गजानां रुधिराक्तां तां गदां बिभ्रद् वृकोदरः ॥
घोरः प्रतिभयश् चासीत् पिनाकीव पिनाकधृक् ॥
निर्मथ्यमानाः क्रुद्धेन भीमसेनेन दन्तिनः ॥
सहसा प्राद्रवञ् शिष्टा मृद्नन्तस् तव वाहिनीम् ॥
तं हि वीरं महेष्वासाः सौभद्रप्रमुखा रथाः ॥
पर्यरक्षन्त युध्यन्तं वज्रायुधम् इवामराः ॥
शोणिताक्तां गदां बिभ्रद् उक्षितो गजशोणितैः ॥
कृतान्त इव रौद्रात्मा भीमसेनो व्यदृश्यत ॥
व्यायच्छमानं गदया दिक्षु सर्वासु भारत ॥
नृत्यमानम् अपश्याम नृत्यन्तम् इव शंकरम् ॥
यमदण्डोपमां गुर्वीम् इन्द्राशनिसमस्वनाम् ॥
अपश्याम महाराज रौद्रां विशसनीं गदाम् ॥
विमिश्रां केशमज्जाभिः प्रदिग्धां रुधिरेण च ॥
पिनाकम् इव रुद्रस्य क्रुद्धस्याभिघ्नतः पशून् ॥
यथा पशूनां संघातं यष्ट्या पालः प्रकालयेत् ॥
तथा भीमो गजानीकं गदया पर्यकालयत् ॥
गदया वध्यमानास् ते मार्गणैश् च समन्ततः ॥
स्वान्य् अनीकानि मृद्नन्तः प्राद्रवन् कुञ्जरास् तव ॥
महावात इवाभ्राणि विधमित्वा स वारणान् ॥
अतिष्ठत् तुमुले भीमः श्मशान इव शूलभृत् ॥
medorudhiradigdhāṅgo vasāmajjāsamukṣitaḥ ||
vyacarat samare bhīmo daṇḍapāṇir ivāntakaḥ ||
gajānāṃ rudhirāktāṃ tāṃ gadāṃ bibhrad vṛkodaraḥ ||
ghoraḥ pratibhayaś cāsīt pinākīva pinākadhṛk ||
nirmathyamānāḥ kruddhena bhīmasenena dantinaḥ ||
sahasā prādravañ śiṣṭā mṛdnantas tava vāhinīm ||
taṃ hi vīraṃ maheṣvāsāḥ saubhadrapramukhā rathāḥ ||
paryarakṣanta yudhyantaṃ vajrāyudham ivāmarāḥ ||
śoṇitāktāṃ gadāṃ bibhrad ukṣito gajaśoṇitaiḥ ||
kṛtānta iva raudrātmā bhīmaseno vyadṛśyata ||
vyāyacchamānaṃ gadayā dikṣu sarvāsu bhārata ||
nṛtyamānam apaśyāma nṛtyantam iva śaṃkaram ||
yamadaṇḍopamāṃ gurvīm indrāśanisamasvanām ||
apaśyāma mahārāja raudrāṃ viśasanīṃ gadām ||
vimiśrāṃ keśamajjābhiḥ pradigdhāṃ rudhireṇa ca ||
pinākam iva rudrasya kruddhasyābhighnataḥ paśūn ||
yathā paśūnāṃ saṃghātaṃ yaṣṭyā pālaḥ prakālayet ||
tathā bhīmo gajānīkaṃ gadayā paryakālayat ||
gadayā vadhyamānās te mārgaṇaiś ca samantataḥ ||
svāny anīkāni mṛdnantaḥ prādravan kuñjarās tava ||
mahāvāta ivābhrāṇi vidhamitvā sa vāraṇān ||
atiṣṭhat tumule bhīmaḥ śmaśāna iva śūlabhṛt ||
Bhima ranged through the battle, his body smeared with fat and blood, drenched with marrow and fat, like Antaka with his staff in hand. Vrikodara, holding his mace stained with the blood of elephants, was terrible and dreadful, like Pinakin bearing the Pinaka. Crushed by the enraged Bhimasena, the remaining elephants suddenly fled, trampling your army. The great bowmen on their chariots, led by Saubhadra, protected that hero as he fought, as the immortals guard the Wielder of the Thunderbolt. Bhimasena, bearing his blood-stained mace and drenched with elephants' blood, appeared terrible, like Kritanta. O Bharata, we saw him wielding his mace in every direction, moving as if in a dance, like dancing Shankara. O great king, we saw his terrible, slaughtering mace, heavy as the rod of Yama, roaring like the thunderbolt of Indra, mixed with hair and marrow, smeared with blood, like the Pinaka of enraged Rudra as he strikes down beasts. As a herdsman drives a herd of animals with his staff, so Bhima scattered the elephant-force with his mace. Struck by the mace and by arrows from every side, your elephants fled, trampling their own ranks. Having scattered the elephants as a great wind scatters clouds, Bhima stood amid the tumult, like the Trident-Bearer in a cremation ground.
4d8aa5fb99c2 · प्रकाशित 17 जुल॰ 2026, 9:22:45 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The images of Yama, Rudra, and Shankara point not to decorative cruelty but to the scale of destruction that falls upon a force gathered for an unrighteous cause. Bhima becomes a form of retribution: the elephants sent to stop him instead turn terror back upon the army of the Kurus.