Shloka 22
Adhyāya 65: Dawn Assembly, Makara–Śyena Vyūhas, and Commander Engagements
जिस समय ये दसों महारथी क्रोधमें भरकर अत्यन्त भयंकर युद्धमें लगे हुए थे, उस समय आपकी और पाण्डवोंकी सेनाके दूसरे रथी दर्शक होकर देखते थे ।।
śastrāṇy anekarūpāṇi visṛjanto mahārathāḥ | anyonyam abhinardantaḥ samprahāraṃ pracakrire ||
Sañjaya said: While those ten great chariot-warriors, filled with wrath, were locked in that most dreadful fight, the other chariot-fighters—on your side and on the Pāṇḍavas’—stood by as spectators. Yet those heroes rained down weapons of many kinds, roaring at one another, and drove the battle into full fury, each striving to overpower the other in the fierce clash of arms.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds the kṣatriya world of duty and prowess: battle is portrayed as a disciplined, mutual contest of elite warriors, where courage and resolve are tested amid violent means. Ethically, it frames war as an enacted obligation and consequence of prior choices, rather than mere spectacle.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield moment when the great chariot-warriors engage directly—launching diverse weapons, shouting battle-cries, and initiating a full-scale clash with one another.