Shloka 34
Bhagadatta’s Advance, the Saṃśaptaka Challenge, and Arjuna’s Counterstrike (द्रोणपर्व, अध्याय २६)
तदद्भुतमपश्याम भगदत्तस्य संयुगे
tad adbhutam apaśyāma bhagadattasya saṁyuge
قال سنجيا: في تلك المعركة شهدنا عملاً عجيباً حقّاً أتى به بهاگاداتّا—إظهاراً خارقاً للبأس وسط فوضى الحرب، حتى إنّ المحاربين المخضرمين أصابهم منه العجب.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line highlights how, even within a destructive war, extraordinary human capability can evoke wonder; it implicitly points to the Mahābhārata’s recurring tension between admiration for valor (kṣātra-tejas) and the sobering ethical cost of violence.
Sañjaya, reporting the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, remarks that he and others witnessed something astonishing in the combat involving Bhagadatta, signaling a notable feat or turn of action centered on that warrior.