Shloka 80
ततश्शकछिन्नायुधं तेन रणे पजच महारथा:
tataḥ śakra-chinnāyudhaṃ tena raṇe pañca mahārathāḥ
Sañjaya sprach: Dann blieben auf jenem Schlachtfeld fünf große Wagenkrieger zurück, deren Waffen er zerschmettert hatte — ein Bild überwältigender Kriegsmacht, das zeigt, wie im Krieg Können selbst den Mächtigen plötzlich die Mittel zum Widerstand entreißen kann.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the fragility of power in warfare: even the foremost warriors can be rendered helpless when their weapons are broken. Ethically, it points to the harsh reality that martial excellence and the momentum of battle can overturn status and strength in an instant.
Sañjaya reports that, in the ongoing combat, a single dominant fighter (referred to by ‘tena’, “by him”) has broken or severed the weapons of five elite chariot-warriors, leaving them effectively disarmed amid the fight.