ऊरू चिच्छेद चान्यस्य गजस्थस्य विशां पते ॥
वाजिपृष्ठगतस्यापि भूमिष्ठस्य च मारिष ॥
नाज्ञासिषुर् धावमाना बहवश् च महारथाः ॥
संछिन्नान्य् आत्मगात्राणि वाहनानि च संयुगे ॥
ते वध्यमानाः समरे पाञ्चालाः सृञ्जयैः सह ॥
तृणप्रस्पन्दनाच् चापि सूतपुत्रं स्म मेनिरे ॥
अपि स्वं समरे योधं धावमानं विचेतसः ॥
कर्णम् एवाभ्यमन्यन्त ततो भीता द्रवन्ति ते ॥
ūrū ciccheda cānyasya gajasthasya viśāṃ pate ||
vājipṛṣṭhagatasyāpi bhūmiṣṭhasya ca māriṣa ||
nājñāsiṣur dhāvamānā bahavaś ca mahārathāḥ ||
saṃchinnāny ātmagātrāṇi vāhanāni ca saṃyuge ||
te vadhyamānāḥ samare pāñcālāḥ sṛñjayaiḥ saha ||
tṛṇapraspandanāc cāpi sūtaputraṃ sma menire ||
api svaṃ samare yodhaṃ dhāvamānaṃ vicetasaḥ ||
karṇam evābhyamanyanta tato bhītā dravanti te ||
And he cut through the thighs of another seated on an elephant, o lord of men, and of one seated on a horse's back, and of one standing on the ground, o venerable one. The fleeing men did not notice, nor did many great warriors, their own severed limbs and their steeds in the clash. Being slain in battle, the Panchalas together with the Srinjayas took even the stirring of a blade of grass for the son of a suta. Even their own warrior fleeing in the battle, out of their wits, they took for Karna himself, and then, in terror, they fled.
48d2a2613935 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:49:34 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Terror reaches the point of derangement: warriors do not feel their own severed arms, see Karna in the stirring of a blade of grass, and mistake their own fleeing comrade for the enemy. It is telling how fear distorts perception itself. The verse teaches that panic is more terrible than the sword: one seized by terror loses reason, flees from shadows, and dies of imagining; and in this derangement lies the chief harm, for fear multiplies the enemy out of nothing and turns those trying to save themselves into the doomed.