पतिते भरतश्रेष्ठे बभूव कुरुवाहिनी ॥
द्यौर् इवापेतनक्षत्रा हीनं खम् इव वायुना ॥
विपन्नसस्येव मही वाक् चैवासंस्कृता यथा ॥
आसुरीव यथा सेना निगृहीते पुरा बलौ ॥
विधवेव वरारोहा शुष्कतोयेव निम्नगा ॥
वृकैर् इव वने रुद्धा पृषती हतयूथपा ॥
स्वाधर्षा हतसिंहेव महती गिरिकन्दरा ॥
भारती भरतश्रेष्ठ पतिते जाह्नवीसुते ॥
patite bharataśreṣṭhe babhūva kuruvāhinī ||
dyaur ivāpetanakṣatrā hīnaṃ kham iva vāyunā ||
vipannasasyeva mahī vāk caivāsaṃskṛtā yathā ||
āsurīva yathā senā nigṛhīte purā balau ||
vidhaveva varārohā śuṣkatoyeva nimnagā ||
vṛkair iva vane ruddhā pṛṣatī hatayūthapā ||
svādharṣā hatasiṃheva mahatī girikandarā ||
bhāratī bharataśreṣṭha patite jāhnavīsute ||
When the best of the Bharatas [Bhishma] had fallen, the army of the Kurus became like the sky bereft of stars, and like space deprived of wind; like the earth with its crops ruined, and like speech that is unrefined; like the host of the asuras when Bali was once subdued; like a fair-hipped wife turned widow, and like a river whose waters have dried; like a doe hunted down by wolves in the forest, her herd-leader slain. Once unassailable, it became like a great mountain cave whose lion is slain — such was the host of the Bharatas, O best of the Bharatas, when the son of Jahnavi had fallen.
24a499c741bc · 发布于 2026年7月19日 14:46:26 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
This string of verses threads image upon image — sky without stars, air without wind, ruined fields, a dried-up river, a widow, a doe without a leader, a cave without a lion: all of this shows one thing — that Bhishma was for the army very life itself, its light and its motion, not merely a commander. The comparison with "speech lacking correctness" is profound: as flawed speech loses meaning, so an army without its center loses order and soul. But the image of the widow and the dried river conceals another truth: beauty and fullness, taken away with the departure of one, reveal that hope had been placed on the mortal rather than the imperishable. The verse teaches that all that rests on the transient turns to emptiness when the transient departs; only that whose center is the imperishable Lord stands firm.