स संप्रहारस् तुमुलः समरूप इवाभवत् ॥
पार्षतस्य च शूरस्य दुर्मुखस्य च भारत ॥
पार्षतः शरजालेन क्षिप्रं प्रच्छाद्य दुर्मुखम् ॥
भारद्वाजं शरौघेण महता समवारयत् ॥
द्रोणम् आवारितं दृष्ट्वा भृशायस्तस् तवात्मजः ॥
नानालिङ्गैः शरव्रातैः पार्षतं सममोहयत् ॥
sa saṃprahāras tumulaḥ samarūpa ivābhavat ||
pārṣatasya ca śūrasya durmukhasya ca bhārata ||
pārṣataḥ śarajālena kṣipraṃ pracchādya durmukham ||
bhāradvājaṃ śaraugheṇa mahatā samavārayat ||
droṇam āvāritaṃ dṛṣṭvā bhṛśāyastas tavātmajaḥ ||
nānāliṅgaiḥ śaravrātaiḥ pārṣataṃ samamohayat ||
That clash of the hero Parshata and Durmukha broke out fierce, as though evenly matched, O Bharata. Parshata, having swiftly showered Durmukha with a web of arrows, also checked Drona with a great flood of arrows. Having caught sight of Drona checked, your son, striving zealously, cast Parshata into confusion with swarms of arrows of various patterns.
4df40e9ea35f · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 3:00:04 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Dhrishtadyumna is true to his word: no sooner has he checked Durmukha than he turns the flood of arrows on Drona as well — the promise to defend the king he fulfills in deed, without being diverted by a single opponent. And Durmukha, shielding his teacher, fights "zealously," driven by the desire to please — and in this zeal for Drona's sake there is a valor of its own, the valor of devotion. It is significant that the clash is called "as though equal": for a time the lesser warrior is made equal to the greater by the force of resolve. The verse teaches that fidelity to a given word is tested in the press of battle, when one must hold to the main goal without being scattered; that devotion to one's lord or teacher can raise an ordinary fighter to equality with the strongest; and that in the collision of two loyalties — the defender's and the shielder's — what each is worth is revealed.