संशप्तकसमुद्रं तम् उच्छोष्यास्त्रगभस्तिभिः ॥
स पाण्डवयुगान्तार्कः कुरून् अप्य् अभ्यतीतपत् ॥
प्रददाह कुरून् सर्वान् अर्जुनः शस्त्रतेजसा ॥
युगान्ते सर्वभूतानि धूमकेतुर् इवोत्थितः ॥
तेन बाणसहस्रौघैर् गजाश्वरथयोधिनः ॥
ताड्यमानाः क्षितिं जग्मुर् मुक्तशस्त्राः शरार्दिताः ॥
saṃśaptakasamudraṃ tam ucchoṣyāstragabhastibhiḥ ||
sa pāṇḍavayugāntārkaḥ kurūn apy abhyatītapat ||
pradadāha kurūn sarvān arjunaḥ śastratejasā ||
yugānte sarvabhūtāni dhūmaketur ivotthitaḥ ||
tena bāṇasahasraughair gajāśvarathayodhinaḥ ||
tāḍyamānāḥ kṣitiṃ jagmur muktaśastrāḥ śarārditāḥ ||
Having dried up that ocean of Samshaptakas with the rays of his weapons, he, like the sun of the Pandavas' final age, scorched the Kurus as well. Arjuna burned all the Kurus with the blaze of his weapons, like a comet risen [to consume] all beings at the end of an age. By him, with thousandfold streams of arrows, warriors mounted on elephants, horses, and chariots, struck down, fell to the earth, dropping their weapons, wounded.
a5a7d126526a · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 3:22:09 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Arjuna is likened to the 'sun of the final age' and the 'comet of the world's end' — images of universal annihilation. His terror grows to a cosmic measure: he is no longer merely a warrior but, as it were, an instrument of Time itself, consuming what has outlived its time. It is telling that the same sun that scorches the enemy is, for his own, a sun of deliverance: one image is twofold, depending on which side beholds it. The verse teaches that in the hour when destinies are fulfilled, a man can become the instrument of a greater power acting through him; that destruction wrought at the bidding of dharma partakes of that universal fire which, at the end of an age, purifies the world; and that one and the same manifestation is both destruction for the unrighteous and salvation for the righteous, for the sun of truth both warms and burns, according to who stands before it.