रथानां च रणे राजन्न् अन्योन्यम् अभिधावताम् ॥
बभूव तुमुलः शब्दो मेघानां नदताम् इव ॥
द्रवतां सादिनां चैव गजानां च विशां पते ॥
अन्योन्यम् अभितो राजन् क्रूरम् आयोधनं बभौ ॥
पत्तीनां द्रवतां चैव पदशब्देन मेदिनी ॥
अकम्पत महाराज भयत्रस्तेव चाङ्गना ॥
रथा रथान् समासाद्य प्रद्रुता वेगवत्तरम् ॥
न्यगृह्णन् बहवो राजञ् शलभान् वायसा इव ॥
rathānāṃ ca raṇe rājann anyonyam abhidhāvatām ||
babhūva tumulaḥ śabdo meghānāṃ nadatām iva ||
dravatāṃ sādināṃ caiva gajānāṃ ca viśāṃ pate ||
anyonyam abhito rājan krūram āyodhanaṃ babhau ||
pattīnāṃ dravatāṃ caiva padaśabdena medinī ||
akampata mahārāja bhayatrasteva cāṅganā ||
rathā rathān samāsādya pradrutā vegavattaram ||
nyagṛhṇan bahavo rājañ śalabhān vāyasā iva ||
And likewise your sons too surrounded the best of the twice-born [Kripa] together with a great host; and then there was battle again. Of chariots in battle, O king, rushing at one another, there arose a tumultuous din, as of roaring clouds. Of rushing horsemen and elephants, O lord of peoples, against one another on every side, O king, cruel appeared the battle. And from the sound of the footfalls of rushing footmen the earth trembled, O great king, like a woman trembling with fear.
d358d585b416 · 发布于 2026年7月19日 16:49:34 UTC
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The earth trembles under the trampling, "like a woman trembling with fear": the very ground shudders before the frenzy of men. It is significant that this likeness is not to a warrior but to a defenseless maiden: nature here is not fierce but frightened. The verse teaches that the fury of war terrifies not only men but, as it were, the earth itself; and in this image of the trembling ground, quaking as if from fear, there sounds a silent reproach to man, whose strife shakes and defiles the very thing that bears and feeds him.