Shloka 62
भीष्मधनंजयद्वैरथम्
Bhīṣma–Dhanaṃjaya Duel and the Opening Clash
धर्मे स्थितस्य हि यथा न कश्रिद् वृजिनं क्वचित् | भरतनन्दन! जैसे कोई धर्मनिष्ठ पुरुषमें कहीं कोई पाप नहीं देख पाता, उसी प्रकार कोई भी रफक्षेत्रमें उन दोनों योद्धाओंका छिद्र नहीं देख पाता था ।।
sañjaya uvāca | dharme sthitasya hi yathā na kaścid vṛjinaṃ kvacit | bharatanandana! ubhau ca śarajālena tāvad adṛśyau babhūvatuḥ ||
Sañjaya said: “O joy of the Bharatas, just as no one can find any stain of wrongdoing anywhere in a man firmly established in dharma, so too no one could discern any vulnerable opening in those two warriors on the battlefield; and for a time, both of them disappeared from sight, veiled by a net of arrows.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral integrity is portrayed as invulnerability: just as a person firmly rooted in dharma offers no foothold for blame or sin to be detected, consummate warriors in righteous resolve offer no ‘opening’ for the enemy to exploit. The verse links ethical steadfastness with the idea of being beyond reproach and beyond easy defeat.
Sañjaya describes an intense exchange in which two opposing champions fight so fiercely that a dense barrage—like a net of arrows—covers them, making them temporarily impossible to see. Observers cannot spot any weakness (‘chidra’) in either combatant during this phase.