Mahabharata — Shalya Parva, Shloka 303
शल्यस्य पाण्डवसेनापीडनम् — Śalya’s Assault on the Pāṇḍava Host
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द्वाभ्यां द्वाभ्यां महाराज शराभ्यां रणमूर्थनि । महाराज! माद्रीके प्रतापी पुत्र नकुलने बिना किसी घबराहटके युद्धके मुहानेपर दो-दो बाणोंसे उन दोनों भाइयोंको घायल कर दिया
dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāṃ mahārāja śarābhyāṃ raṇamūrdhani |
Sañjaya said: O King, on the very forefront of the battlefield, he struck them—two by two—with arrows, wounding both brothers. The scene underscores the relentless precision of war, where courage and skill are displayed without hesitation, even as the moral weight of harming kinsmen remains implicit in the larger tragedy of Kurukṣetra.
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The verse highlights the disciplined, unsentimental execution of a warrior’s duty in battle—precision and fearlessness at the front line—while implicitly reminding the reader that such prowess unfolds within the ethically fraught setting of a fratricidal war.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that, at the forefront of the fight, a warrior wounds two brothers by shooting two arrows at each—an image of rapid, methodical combat in the Shalya Parva battle sequence.
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