सा निशीथे महाराज सेनादृश्यत भारती ॥
अङ्गदैः कुण्डलैर् निष्कैः शस्त्रैश् चैवावभासिता ॥
तत्र नागा रथाश् चैव जाम्बूनदविभूषिताः ॥
निशायां प्रत्यदृश्यन्त मेघा इव सविद्युतः ॥
ऋष्टिशक्तिगदाबाणमुसलप्रासपट्टिशाः ॥
संपतन्तो व्यदृश्यन्त भ्राजमाना इवाग्नयः ॥
sā niśīthe mahārāja senādṛśyata bhāratī ||
aṅgadaiḥ kuṇḍalair niṣkaiḥ śastraiś caivāvabhāsitā ||
tatra nāgā rathāś caiva jāmbūnadavibhūṣitāḥ ||
niśāyāṃ pratyadṛśyanta meghā iva savidyutaḥ ||
ṛṣṭiśaktigadābāṇamusalaprāsapaṭṭiśāḥ ||
saṃpatanto vyadṛśyanta bhrājamānā ivāgnayaḥ ||
That army of the Bharatas, o great king, was seen at midnight illumined by armlets, earrings, nishkas, and weapons. There the elephants and chariots too, adorned with gold, were seen in the night like clouds with lightning. Swords, spears, maces, arrows, mallets, lances, and pattishas flying through the air were seen like blazing fires.
f9abf96dcd10 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:31:38 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Weapons flying through the dark shimmer like fires, and elephants and chariots like thunderclouds: the poet builds a visible grandeur out of a night battle. It is significant that this beauty is made entirely of instruments of death. The verse teaches that war can clothe itself in fearsome splendor; but all its gleam is only the flash of blades bringing death, and to admire it must not obscure that these "fires" are death itself, flying through the darkness.