Shloka 5
Karṇa-vadha-pratyaya: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Verification of Karṇa’s Fall (कर्णवध-प्रत्ययः)
पारावतसवर्णाश्विश्रन्द्रादित्यसमद्युति: । पार्षत: प्रबभौ धन््वी कालो विग्रहवानिव
pārāvata-savarṇāśviś candrāditya-sama-dyutiḥ | pārṣataḥ prababhau dhanvī kālo vigrahavān iva ||
কপৌতবৰ্ণ অশ্বযুক্ত, চন্দ্ৰ-সূৰ্যসম দীপ্তিমান, ধনুৰ্ধৰ পাৰ্ষত (ধৃষ্টদ্যুম্ন) তাত এনেদৰে জ্বলি উঠিল—যেন যুদ্ধক্ষেত্ৰত মূর্তিমান কালেই অৱতীৰ্ণ হৈছে।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a warrior’s emergence in cosmic terms: in war, human action is overshadowed by Kāla (Time/Death), reminding readers that power and brilliance are transient and that outcomes unfold within a larger, inexorable order.
Sañjaya describes Dhṛṣṭadyumna entering the scene in striking splendor—his chariot team likened to doves and his presence compared to the combined radiance of Moon and Sun—so formidable that he seems like embodied Time moving through the battlefield.