एवं संजल्पतां तेषां तावकानां महारथः ॥
आयाज् जवेन कौन्तेयो रथघोषेण नादयन् ॥
शोणितोदां रथावर्तां कृत्वा विशसने नदीम् ॥
शूरास्थिचयसंकीर्णां प्रेतकूलापहारिणीम् ॥
तां शरौघमहाफेनां प्रासमत्स्यसमाकुलाम् ॥
नदीम् उत्तीर्य वेगेन कुरून् विद्राव्य पाण्डवः ॥
ततः किरीटी सहसा द्रोणानीकम् उपाद्रवत् ॥
छादयन्न् इषुजालेन महता मोहयन्न् इव ॥
evaṃ saṃjalpatāṃ teṣāṃ tāvakānāṃ mahārathaḥ ||
āyāj javena kaunteyo rathaghoṣeṇa nādayan ||
śoṇitodāṃ rathāvartāṃ kṛtvā viśasane nadīm ||
śūrāsthicayasaṃkīrṇāṃ pretakūlāpahāriṇīm ||
tāṃ śaraughamahāphenāṃ prāsamatsyasamākulām ||
nadīm uttīrya vegena kurūn vidrāvya pāṇḍavaḥ ||
tataḥ kirīṭī sahasā droṇānīkam upādravat ||
chādayann iṣujālena mahatā mohayann iva ||
While your people were thus talking, the mighty chariot-warrior, the son of Kunti [Arjuna], swiftly arrived, making all resound with the rumble of his chariot. Having loosed upon the killing-ground a river — its water blood, its whirlpools chariots, full of heaps of heroes' bones, sweeping away banks of the dead, foaming with torrents of arrows, swarming with fish that were javelins — and having swiftly crossed that river and routed the Kauravas, the Pandava, the Diademed Arjuna, then fell at once upon Drona's host, covering it with a vast net of arrows, as though casting it into confusion.
cf65b810decb · 发布于 2026年7月19日 15:00:04 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
At the very moment of evil's seeming triumph, Arjuna appears — and the army's dread turns to hope: the protector comes when the protected already seem lost. The image of the river of blood, which Arjuna himself 'lets loose' and at once 'crosses,' shows him as master of the very horror of war. It is significant that no sooner does the cry 'the king is taken' sound than protection arrives — for truth is never left without a champion in the decisive hour. The verse teaches that deliverance often comes at the very limit of disaster, when hope has almost faded; that the Lord and His devotee do not let the righteous perish; and that the most fearsome hour of unrighteous triumph is the eve of its collapse.