स महास्त्रैर् महाराज द्रोणम् आच्छादयद् रणे ॥
निहत्य सर्वाण्य् अस्त्राणि भारद्वाजस्य पार्षतः ॥
स वसातीञ् शिबींश् चैव बाह्लीकान् कौरवान् अपि ॥
रक्षिष्यमाणान् संग्रामे द्रोणं व्यधमद् अच्युतः ॥
धृष्टद्युम्नस् तदा राजन् गभस्तिभिर् इवांशुमान् ॥
बभौ प्रच्छादयन्न् आशाः शरजालैः समन्ततः ॥
sa mahāstrair mahārāja droṇam ācchādayad raṇe ||
nihatya sarvāṇy astrāṇi bhāradvājasya pārṣataḥ ||
sa vasātīñ śibīṃś caiva bāhlīkān kauravān api ||
rakṣiṣyamāṇān saṃgrāme droṇaṃ vyadhamad acyutaḥ ||
dhṛṣṭadyumnas tadā rājan gabhastibhir ivāṃśumān ||
babhau pracchādayann āśāḥ śarajālaiḥ samantataḥ ||
He, with great weapons, O great king, covered Drona in battle, having repelled all the weapons of Bharadvaja — Parshata. He, the unshaken one, scattered the Vasatis and the Shibis, and the Bahlikas and the Kauravas as well, who were guarding Drona in the fight, and Drona himself. Dhrishtadyumna then, O king, like the sun with its rays, shone, veiling the quarters with nets of arrows on every side.
d4cc8613f499 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 5:08:17 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Dhrishtadyumna, "veiling the quarters with nets of arrows," shines like the sun — fate clothes its instrument in splendor. It is telling that he first scatters the guard of protectors and only then reaches Drona: what is foreordained clears its own path through every obstacle. The verse teaches that when the hour is appointed, no guard can turn it aside; and the grandeur here is not the warrior's personal glory but the terrible inevitability of the event itself.