पाण्डवैः सह पाञ्चालैर् अशिवैः क्रूरकर्मभिः ॥
हतो रुक्मरथो राजन् कृत्वा कर्म सुदुष्करम् ॥
ततो निनादो भूतानाम् आकाशे समजायत ॥
सैन्यानां च ततो राजन्न् आचार्ये निहते युधि ॥
द्यां धरां खं दिशो वारि प्रदिशश् चानुनादयन् ॥
अहो धिग् इति भूतानां शब्दः समभवन् महान् ॥
pāṇḍavaiḥ saha pāñcālair aśivaiḥ krūrakarmabhiḥ ||
hato rukmaratho rājan kṛtvā karma suduṣkaram ||
tato ninādo bhūtānām ākāśe samajāyata ||
sainyānāṃ ca tato rājann ācārye nihate yudhi ||
dyāṃ dharāṃ khaṃ diśo vāri pradiśaś cānunādayan ||
aho dhig iti bhūtānāṃ śabdaḥ samabhavan mahān ||
By the Pandavas together with the Panchalas, merciless and fierce in their deeds, [Drona] of the golden chariot was slain, O king, after he had performed a most difficult feat. Then a great outcry of beings and armies arose in the firmament, O king, when the teacher was struck down in battle. Filling the sky, the earth, the firmament, the cardinal directions, the waters, and the intermediate quarters, a great cry of beings arose: 'Alas! Shame!'
a58843accc62 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 2:46:26 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The teacher's death draws forth a cry of 'alas and shame' from the very beings and elements: the world shudders not over the victory or defeat of a side, but over the fall of a great one, in whom there dwelt so many gifts. It is significant that this lament is all-encompassing — sky, earth, waters: the passing of a man of knowledge grieves the whole of creation, whatever side he fell for. But the very word 'shame' (dhik) also points to the sorrowful wrongness of the manner of his killing, which the narrative will tell of further on. The verse teaches that the death of one who bore great gifts is mourned by the whole universe, above the quarrels of sides; that in the fall of a sage the whole world loses something; and that the cry of 'alas and shame' foretells that even a victory bought at the price of such a fall is shadowed by the taint of wrongdoing.