Shloka 49
अन्यानपि महाराज तापयामास पार्थिवान् | महाराज! इसी प्रकार अंशुमाली सूर्यके समान अन्यान्य राजाओंको भी वे अपने बाणोंकी वर्षासे संतप्त करने लगे || ४८ ह ।। पराड्मुखीकृत्य तथा शरवर्षैरमहारथान्,और भारत! उन सब महारथियोंको बाणवर्षद्वारा विमुख करके अर्जुनने संग्राम भूमिमें कौरव-पाण्डवोंकी सेनाओंके बीच रक्तकी बहुत बड़ी नदी बहा दी
sañjaya uvāca |
anyān api mahārāja tāpayāmāsa pārthivān |
parāṅmukhīkṛtya tathā śaravarṣair amahārathān |
atha bhārata! tān sarvān mahārathīn bāṇavarṣadvārā vimukhīkṛtya arjunaḥ saṅgrāmabhūmau kaurava-pāṇḍavayoḥ senayor madhye raktasya bahulāṃ nadīm avāhayat |
Sanjaya said: O great king, he scorched other rulers as well. Like the radiant sun, he began to torment still more kings with a rain of arrows. Then, O Bharata, by turning even the non–great chariot-warriors away with showers of shafts, and by driving back those great chariot-fighters with an unbroken downpour of arrows, Arjuna caused, on the battlefield between the Kaurava and Pandava armies, a vast river of blood to flow. The passage underscores the terrible moral cost of war: prowess achieves tactical ends, yet it also multiplies suffering on a scale that stains the very ground between kin.
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