Shloka 68
सहसतनेत्रप्रतिमानकर्मण: सहस्रपत्रप्रतिमाननं शुभम् | सहसरश्मिर्दिनसंक्षये यथा तथापतत् कर्णशिरो वसुंधराम्
sahasranetra-pratimāna-karmaṇaḥ sahasra-patra-pratimānanaṃ śubham | sahasra-raśmir dina-saṃkṣaye yathā tathāpatat karṇa-śiro vasuṃdharām ||
সঞ্জয় ক’লে— সহস্ৰনেত্ৰধাৰী ইন্দ্ৰৰ দৰে কৰ্মবীৰ, সহস্ৰদল পদ্মসদৃশ মুখশোভাযুক্ত কৰ্ণৰ সেই শুভ মস্তক, দিনান্তত সহস্ৰৰশ্মি সূৰ্য-মণ্ডল যিদৰে অস্ত যায়, তেনেদৰেই পৃথিৱীত পতিত হ’ল।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores impermanence: even a warrior likened to Indra in prowess and to a lotus in beauty must fall. Martial glory is real yet fleeting, and the moral world of the epic reminds the listener that embodied power ends under the same universal law.
Sañjaya reports the climactic moment of Karṇa’s death: his head falls to the ground. The fall is poetically framed through two similes—Indra (for heroic deeds) and the setting sun (for the inevitable close of a great life).