Shloka 293
शरै: प्रच्छाद्य निधनमनयत् परमास्त्रवित् “वे उत्तम अस्त्रोंके ज्ञाता तो थे ही
śaraiḥ pracchādya nidhanam anayāt paramāstravit
পৰমাস্ত্ৰবিদ সেই বীৰে নিজৰ বাণেৰে আচ্ছন্ন কৰি পাণ্ডৱপক্ষৰ চেদি, কাশী, পাঞ্চাল, কৰূষ, মৎস্য আৰু কেকয় দেশীয় যোদ্ধাসকলক মৃত্যুমুখলৈ ঠেলি দিলে।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how extraordinary skill in warfare (astra-vidyā) can rapidly become a force of mass destruction; it implicitly raises an ethical tension central to the Mahābhārata—power and expertise require restraint and right intention, otherwise they accelerate adharma’s human cost.
Sañjaya reports that a supreme weapon-master overwhelms the Pāṇḍava-aligned contingents—Cedi, Kāśī, Pāñcāla, Karūṣa, Matsya, and Kekaya—by blanketing them with arrows and sending many to their deaths.