Shloka 89
ते वर्म भित्त्वा पुरुषोत्तमस्य सुवर्णचित्रा न्यपतन् सुमुक्ता: | वेगेन गामाविविशु: सुवेगा: सस््नात्वा च कर्णाभिमुखा: प्रतीयु:,अच्छी तरह छोड़े हुए वे सुवर्णजटित वेगशाली बाण पुरुषोत्तम श्रीकृष्णके कवचको विदीर्ण करके बड़े वेगसे धरतीमें समा गये और पातालगंगामें नहाकर पुनः कर्णकी ओर जाने लगे इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कर्णार्जुनद्वैरथे एकोननवतितमो<ध्याय:
te varma bhittvā puruṣottamasya suvarṇacitrā nyapatan sumuktāḥ | vegena gāmāviviśuḥ suvegāḥ snātvā ca karṇābhimukhāḥ pratīyuḥ ||
Sañjaya said: Those well-released, swift arrows, inlaid with gold, pierced the armor of Puruṣottama (Śrī Kṛṣṇa) and, with tremendous force, sank into the earth. As though they had bathed in the subterranean Gaṅgā, they then seemed to turn back again, facing Karṇa. The passage heightens the moral tension of the war: even the Lord’s charioteer is not beyond the reach of violence, and yet the narrative frames the event with a sense of cosmic order and inevitability, where weapons move as if guided by fate and the momentum of adharma-driven conflict.
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