Shloka 45
शल्यस्य पाण्डवसेनापीडनम् — Śalya’s Assault on the Pāṇḍava Host
with Omens and Bhīma’s Counter
शुशुभे भरतश्रेष्ठो गिरिस्थ इव केसरी । तब सुतसोमके उस रथपर आरूढ़ हो भरतश्रेष्ठ नकुल पर्वतपर बैठे हुए सिंहके समान सुशोभित होने लगे ।।
śuśubhe bharataśreṣṭho giristha iva kesarī | tataḥ sutasomake tasmin rathopārūḍho bharataśreṣṭho nakulaḥ parvatopaviṣṭha iva siṃhaḥ suśobhitavān || anyat kārmukam ādāya suṣeṇaṃ samayodhayat | tau ubhau mahārathī vīrau bāṇavarṣair anyonyam āhṛtya paraspara-vadhāya yatnam akurvatām ||
قال سانجيا: إن ناكولا، خيرَ آل بهاراتا، لما اعتلى عربة سوتاسوما أشرق كأَسَدٍ رابضٍ على جبل. ثم تناول قوسًا آخر واشتَبك مع سوشينا. وتلاقى هذان المَهارَثان الباسلان بوابلٍ من السهام، وكلٌّ منهما يسعى لصرع الآخر.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds kṣatriya-ethics in wartime: steadfast courage, readiness, and skill are praised, yet the scene also underscores the grim inevitability of mutual destruction in a dharma-fractured conflict—valor operating within a tragic moral landscape.
Nakula mounts Sutasoma’s chariot and appears majestic like a mountain-lion. He takes up another bow and begins fighting Suṣeṇa; both are described as mahārathas exchanging dense showers of arrows, each attempting to kill the other.