Shloka 293
शरै: प्रच्छाद्य निधनमनयत् परमास्त्रवित् “वे उत्तम अस्त्रोंके ज्ञाता तो थे ही
śaraiḥ pracchādya nidhanam anayāt paramāstravit
Sañjaya sprach: „Der Meister der höchsten Waffen überschüttete sie mit Pfeilen, bedeckte sie damit und trieb sie dem Tod entgegen; so überwältigte er die Krieger auf Seiten der Pāṇḍavas aus Cedi, Kāśī, Pāñcāla, Karūṣa, Matsya und Kekaya, indem er sie unter seinen Geschossen begrub.“
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.