ते तस्य कवचं भित्त्वा हेमचित्रं महाधनम् ॥
प्राविशन् धरणीम् उग्रा वल्मीकम् इव पन्नगाः ॥
अक्ष्णोर् निमेषमात्रेण सो ऽन्यद् आदाय कार्मुकम् ॥
विव्याध पाण्डवं षष्ट्या सूतं च नवभिः शरैः ॥
तस्य शक्तिम् अमेयात्मा पाण्डवो भुजगोपमाम् ॥
चिक्षेप भरतश्रेष्ठ रथे न्यस्य महद् धनुः ॥
सा हेमचित्रा महती पाण्डवेन प्रवेरिता ॥
निर्भिद्य दक्षिणं बाहुं प्राविशद् धरणीतलम् ॥
te tasya kavacaṃ bhittvā hemacitraṃ mahādhanam ||
prāviśan dharaṇīm ugrā valmīkam iva pannagāḥ ||
akṣṇor nimeṣamātreṇa so 'nyad ādāya kārmukam ||
vivyādha pāṇḍavaṃ ṣaṣṭyā sūtaṃ ca navabhiḥ śaraiḥ ||
tasya śaktim ameyātmā pāṇḍavo bhujagopamām ||
cikṣepa bharataśreṣṭha rathe nyasya mahad dhanuḥ ||
sā hemacitrā mahatī pāṇḍavena praveritā ||
nirbhidya dakṣiṇaṃ bāhuṃ prāviśad dharaṇītalam ||
Having pierced his gold-adorned, priceless armor, they entered the earth, fierce, like snakes into an anthill. In the blink of an eye, he, taking another bow, pierced the Pandava with sixty arrows and the charioteer with nine. At him the Pandava of boundless spirit, O best of the Bharatas, having set down his great bow on the chariot, hurled a dart like a serpent. That gold-adorned, huge dart, hurled by the Pandava, pierced his right arm and entered the ground.
bd66d49e9494 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:40:46 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Arrows, piercing armor, sink into the earth "like snakes into an anthill": the deadly vanishes for a moment, but does not disappear. It is telling that Yudhishthira, usually restrained, sets aside his bow and seizes a dart — the battle has driven the righteous one to a fierce exertion of strength. The verse teaches that even the gentlest, pushed to the limit, reveals a hidden might; virtue is not powerlessness, and the patient man, when other means are spent, strikes with a force no one expected from his meekness.