Shloka 10
भीमसेनस्य गदायुद्ध-प्रभावः
The Battlefield Impact of Bhīmasena’s Mace Combat
अभिमन्यु: सुसंक्रुद्धों भ्रातरं भरतर्षभ । शरै: पञ्चाशता राजन क्षिप्रहस्तो5भ्यविध्यत,महाराज! भरतश्रेष्ठ) यह देख शीघ्रतापूर्वक हाथ चलानेवाला वीर अभिमन्यु अत्यन्त कुपित हो उठा और अपने भाई लक्ष्मणको उसने पचास बाणोंसे घायल कर दिया
sañjaya uvāca | abhimanyuḥ susaṃkruddho bhrātaraṃ bharatarṣabha | śaraiḥ pañcāśatā rājan kṣiprahasto 'bhyavidhyata ||
Sanjaya said: Abhimanyu, inflamed with fierce anger, swiftly loosed his arrows and struck his brother—O bull among the Bharatas, O king—with fifty shafts.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the moral pressure of warfare: anger and the demands of kṣatriya duty can override personal relationships, showing how battle tests self-control and the ethical limits of violence.
Sañjaya reports that Abhimanyu, enraged, acts with great speed and wounds his brother (identified in the provided tradition as Lakṣmaṇa) by striking him with fifty arrows during the combat.