तच्छिरो रुधिराभ्यक्तं गृह्य केशेषु राक्षसः ॥
घटोत्कचो ययाव् आशु दुर्योधनरथं प्रति ॥
अभ्येत्य च महाबाहुः स्मयमानः स राक्षसः ॥
रथे ऽस्य निक्षिप्य शिरो विकृताननमूर्धजम् ॥
प्राणदद् भैरवं नादं प्रावृषीव बलाहकः ॥
अब्रवीच् च ततो राजन् दुर्योधनम् इदं वचः ॥
एष ते निहतो बन्धुस् त्वया दृष्टो ऽस्य विक्रमः ॥
पुनर् द्रष्टासि कर्णस्य निष्ठाम् एतां तथात्मनः ॥
एवम् उक्त्वा ततः प्रायात् कर्णं प्रति जनेश्वर ॥
किरञ् शरशतांस् तीक्ष्णान् विमुञ्चन् कर्णमूर्धनि ॥
ततः समभवद् युद्धं घोररूपं भयानकम् ॥
विस्मापनं महाराज नरराक्षसयोर् मृधे ॥
tacchiro rudhirābhyaktaṃ gṛhya keśeṣu rākṣasaḥ ||
ghaṭotkaco yayāv āśu duryodhanarathaṃ prati ||
abhyetya ca mahābāhuḥ smayamānaḥ sa rākṣasaḥ ||
rathe 'sya nikṣipya śiro vikṛtānanamūrdhajam ||
prāṇadad bhairavaṃ nādaṃ prāvṛṣīva balāhakaḥ ||
abravīc ca tato rājan duryodhanam idaṃ vacaḥ ||
eṣa te nihato bandhus tvayā dṛṣṭo 'sya vikramaḥ ||
punar draṣṭāsi karṇasya niṣṭhām etāṃ tathātmanaḥ ||
evam uktvā tataḥ prāyāt karṇaṃ prati janeśvara ||
kirañ śaraśatāṃs tīkṣṇān vimuñcan karṇamūrdhani ||
tataḥ samabhavad yuddhaṃ ghorarūpaṃ bhayānakam ||
vismāpanaṃ mahārāja nararākṣasayor mṛdhe ||
Having lifted him, he struck him down upon the ground, like Vishnu -- Maya in battle. Then Ghatotkacha, having taken up a sword wondrous in appearance, cut the head off from the body, terrible, hideous in appearance. That head, spattered with blood, having taken it by the hair, the rakshasa Ghatotkacha swiftly set out toward Duryodhana's chariot. Having approached, the mighty-armed one, that rakshasa, smirking, having thrown the head with its hideous face and hair onto his chariot, roared a terrible roar, like a cloud in the rainy season. And spoke then, O king, to Duryodhana such a word: "Here your kinsman lies slain; you have seen his valor; again you will see the same end of Karna -- and your own." Having said so, then he set out toward Karna, O lord of men, scattering hundreds of sharp arrows, loosing them upon Karna's head. Then a battle broke out, terrible in aspect, dreadful, astonishing, O great king, of man and rakshasa in combat.
99484b397f82 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:49:34 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Ghatotkacha throws the bloody head onto Duryodhana's chariot with a threat: "you will see the same end befall Karna -- and yourself." This prophecy in the mouth of one exulting is telling: it will come true by half -- Karna will perish, but not before slaying Ghatotkacha himself. The verse teaches that one drunk with victory dares fate, not knowing his own hour; and one who threatens an enemy with a swift end often stands at the threshold of his own -- for the wheel of destiny does not spare the triumphant, and boasting precedes the fall.