दृष्ट्वा रुक्मरथं रुग्णं पुत्रं शल्यस्य मानिनम् ॥
जीवग्राहं जिघृक्षन्तं सौभद्रेण यशस्विना ॥
संग्रामदुर्मदा राजन् राजपुत्राः प्रहारिणः ॥
वयस्याः शल्यपुत्रस्य सुवर्णविकृतध्वजाः ॥
तालमात्राणि चापानि विकर्षन्तो महारथाः ॥
आर्जुनिं शरवर्षेण समन्तात् पर्यवारयन् ॥
dṛṣṭvā rukmarathaṃ rugṇaṃ putraṃ śalyasya māninam ||
jīvagrāhaṃ jighṛkṣantaṃ saubhadreṇa yaśasvinā ||
saṃgrāmadurmadā rājan rājaputrāḥ prahāriṇaḥ ||
vayasyāḥ śalyaputrasya suvarṇavikṛtadhvajāḥ ||
tālamātrāṇi cāpāni vikarṣanto mahārathāḥ ||
ārjuniṃ śaravarṣeṇa samantāt paryavārayan ||
Seeing Rukmaratha struck down — the arrogant son of Shalya, who had longed to seize him alive, struck down by the glorious son of Subhadra — the princes frenzied in battle, O king, valiant warriors, peers of Shalya's son, with gilded banners, great chariot-warriors, drawing bows the size of palm trees, surrounded the son of Arjuna with a rain of arrows from every side.
68aeba8cb4d6 · 发布于 2026年7月19日 15:30:03 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
The death of Rukmaratha summons his fellow princes, his peers — young friends rise to avenge their friend: even friendship here turns into a new turn of the wheel of death. Thus each fallen one draws new victims after him, and the circle of death widens. It is significant that these are "peers," young men — and they go against the youth, their equal in age. The verse teaches that loyalty to a fallen friend, for all its nobility, in a wrongful cause only multiplies the victims; that youth rises against youth, and peers destroy their peer; and that the tradition, noting the youth and friendship of the attackers, makes their coming death all the more bitter — for after the youth there will fall a whole flower of young men, bound by friendship, drawn into a quarrel not their own.