सो ऽभिवीक्ष्य नरौघाणां स्थानम् अप्रतिमं महत् ॥
व्यूढप्रहरणोरस्कं सैन्यं तत् समबृंहयत् ॥
कर्णं दृष्ट्वा महेष्वासं युद्धाय समवस्थितम् ॥
क्ष्वेडितास्फोटितरवैः सिंहनादरवैर् अपि ॥
धनुःशब्दैश् च विविधैः कुरवः समपूजयन् ॥
so 'bhivīkṣya naraughāṇāṃ sthānam apratimaṃ mahat ||
vyūḍhapraharaṇoraskaṃ sainyaṃ tat samabṛṃhayat ||
karṇaṃ dṛṣṭvā maheṣvāsaṃ yuddhāya samavasthitam ||
kṣveḍitāsphoṭitaravaiḥ siṃhanādaravair api ||
dhanuḥśabdaiś ca vividhaiḥ kuravaḥ samapūjayan ||
He [Karna], having surveyed the incomparable, vast encampment of the multitudes of men — the army bristling with its arrayed weapons before it, as if with a breast — lent it strength. Seeing Karna, the mighty archer, taking his stand for battle, [the warriors greeted him] with battle cries, claps of the hands, and lion-roars.
46b6b4d90026 · 发布于 2026年7月19日 14:46:26 UTC
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Karna's mere appearance 'lends strength' to the army — not in numbers but in spirit: the presence of a valiant leader revives fallen courage, just as it had been broken before by Bhishma's fall. The lion-roars and cries that greet him show how much the army thirsted for support — and once more it finds that support in a single man. Thus the cycle repeats: fallen spirit, a new hero, a flash of hope. The verse teaches that the spirit of an army rests on the example of its leader, and that the presence of a courageous man revives courage in the timid; but it also recalls the earlier lesson — hope, each time placed upon a new mortal, is as mortal as he is, and enthusiasm not grounded in the rightness of the cause is only a postponement of despair.