अन्योन्यं प्रजिहीर्षन्ताव् अन्योन्यस्यान्तरैषिणौ ॥
अन्योन्यम् अभिवीक्षन्तौ गोष्ठेष्व् इव महर्षभौ ॥
महागजाव् इवासाद्य विषाणाग्रैः परस्परम् ॥
शरैः पूर्णायतोत्सृष्टैर् अन्योन्यम् अभिजघ्नतुः ॥
निर्दहन्तौ महाराज शरवृष्ट्या परस्परम् ॥
अन्योन्यम् अभिवीक्षन्तौ कोपाद् विवृतलोचनौ ॥
प्रहसन्तौ तथान्योन्यं भर्त्सयन्तौ मुहुर् मुहुः ॥
शङ्खशब्दं च कुर्वाणौ युयुधाते परस्परम् ॥
anyonyaṃ prajihīrṣantāv anyonyasyāntaraiṣiṇau ||
anyonyam abhivīkṣantau goṣṭheṣv iva maharṣabhau ||
mahāgajāv ivāsādya viṣāṇāgraiḥ parasparam ||
śaraiḥ pūrṇāyatotsṛṣṭair anyonyam abhijaghnatuḥ ||
nirdahantau mahārāja śaravṛṣṭyā parasparam ||
anyonyam abhivīkṣantau kopād vivṛtalocanau ||
prahasantau tathānyonyaṃ bhartsayantau muhur muhuḥ ||
śaṅkhaśabdaṃ ca kurvāṇau yuyudhāte parasparam ||
"Each seeking to strike the other, each seeking out the other's weakness, staring fixedly at one another like two mighty bulls in cattle-pens; like two great elephants, having met with the tips of their tusks, they struck one another with arrows released at full draw. Consuming one another with a shower of arrows, O great king, staring at one another with eyes wide from wrath, mocking each other and threatening again and again, blowing their conches, they battled one another."
28f29100ca3d · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:17:34 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Mockery and threat are woven into the battle no less than the arrows: wounding the foe's spirit seems as important as wounding his body. It is significant that the gaze searching for weakness is described three times: enmity is turned wholly outward, toward another's flaw, and blind to its own. The verse teaches that scorn for an opponent is not strength but a squandering of spirit; whoever looks only for the crack in another does not see the fracture in himself.