उपसृत्य तु राजानं भगदत्तं युधिष्ठिरः ॥
रथानीकेन महता सर्वतः पर्यवारयत् ॥
स कुञ्जरस्थो रथिभिः शुशुभे सर्वतो वृतः ॥
पर्वते वनमध्यस्थो ज्वलन्न् इव हुताशनः ॥
मण्डलं सर्वतः श्लिष्टं रथिनाम् उग्रधन्विनाम् ॥
किरतां शरवर्षाणि स नागः पर्यवर्तत ॥
upasṛtya tu rājānaṃ bhagadattaṃ yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||
rathānīkena mahatā sarvataḥ paryavārayat ||
sa kuñjarastho rathibhiḥ śuśubhe sarvato vṛtaḥ ||
parvate vanamadhyastho jvalann iva hutāśanaḥ ||
maṇḍalaṃ sarvataḥ śliṣṭaṃ rathinām ugradhanvinām ||
kiratāṃ śaravarṣāṇi sa nāgaḥ paryavartata ||
Having approached King Bhagadatta, Yudhishthira surrounded him from all sides with a great array of chariots. He, seated on his elephant, surrounded on all sides by charioteers, shone like a blazing fire amid a forest on a mountain. That elephant circled within the ring of charioteers with fearsome bows, closed on all sides, pouring down showers of arrows.
b92760564510 · 发布于 2026年7月19日 15:11:21 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
Surrounded on every side, Bhagadatta shines "like a fire in a mountain forest" -- the image of a besieged man's terrible beauty, one who does not go out but burns brighter within the ring of his enemies. His elephant "circles" within the closed ring, refusing to let itself be sealed shut. It is telling that the siege does not crush him but seems instead to fan him, like flame in the wind. The verse teaches that valor hemmed in on every side does not go out but blazes up; that a courageous man surrounded is like a fire to which confinement only lends fury; and that a true warrior, beset by enemies, does not freeze into defense but moves, circles, refusing to be pinned down -- for motion is life, and stillness within the ring is death.