तस्य माद्रीसुतः केतुं धनुः सूतं हयान् अपि ॥
नातिक्रुद्धः शरैश् छित्त्वा षष्ट्या विव्याध मातुलम् ॥
सौबलस् तु गदां गृह्य प्रचस्कन्द रथोत्तमात् ॥
स तस्य गदया राजन् रथात् सूतम् अपातयत् ॥
ततस् तौ विरथौ राजन् गदाहस्तौ महाबलौ ॥
चिक्रीडतू रणे शूरौ सशृङ्गाव् इव पर्वतौ ॥
tasya mādrīsutaḥ ketuṃ dhanuḥ sūtaṃ hayān api ||
nātikruddhaḥ śaraiś chittvā ṣaṣṭyā vivyādha mātulam ||
saubalas tu gadāṃ gṛhya pracaskanda rathottamāt ||
sa tasya gadayā rājan rathāt sūtam apātayat ||
tatas tau virathau rājan gadāhastau mahābalau ||
cikrīḍatū raṇe śūrau saśṛṅgāv iva parvatau ||
The son of Madri [Sahadeva], without great wrath, having knocked away his [Shakuni's] banner, bow, charioteer, and horses with arrows, struck his own maternal uncle with sixty arrows. And Saubala [Shakuni], taking up his mace, leapt down from his finest chariot and, with the mace, O king, struck down his [Sahadeva's] charioteer from the chariot. Then both of them, O king, deprived of their chariots, mace in hand, mighty, engaged in battle like two mountains with towering peaks.
3e33f390b0b9 · 发布于 2026年7月19日 15:00:03 UTC
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It is telling that Sahadeva fights his uncle "without great wrath": even in combat forced by fate, the righteous warrior keeps his heart free of hatred — the hand strikes, but the spirit is not embittered. Thus the dharma of the kshatriya shows itself: to fight from duty, not to revel in enmity. The image of two mountain peaks clashing together lends the duel a majestic grandeur. The verse teaches that even in an unavoidable battle one may keep the heart free of malice; that duty commands the blow but does not command hatred; and that the noble warrior fights kin from the necessity of fate, not from spite — and herein lies the difference between righteous combat and vengeful strife.