Shloka 19
अमृष्यमाण: संरब्धो भरनुर्दिव्यं परामृशत् । पुत्रस्य ते महाराज वधार्थ भरतर्षभ,आपके धनुर्धर पुत्रद्वारा समरांगणमें अपने सारथि विशोकको तीखे बाणोंके आघातसे पीड़ित होता देख भीमसेन सह न सके। उन्होंने कुपित होकर अपना दिव्य धनुष हाथमें लिया। महाराज! भरतश्रेष्ठ] फिर आपके पुत्रके वधके लिये अत्यन्त कुपित होकर उन्होंने पंखयुक्त क्षुरप्रका संधान किया और उसके द्वारा राजा दुर्योधनके उत्तम धनुषको काट डाला
sañjaya uvāca | amṛṣyamāṇaḥ saṃrabdho dhanuḥ divyaṃ parāmṛśat | putrasya te mahārāja vadhārthaṃ bharatarṣabha |
Sañjaya said: Unable to endure what he saw and inflamed with wrath, he seized his celestial bow. O great king, O bull among the Bharatas, intent on the slaying of your son, he then fixed a winged, razor-edged arrow and with it cut down King Duryodhana’s excellent bow.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds the moral danger of krodha (anger) in war: when endurance fails, wrath can convert duty-bound combat into personal vengeance. It thus sharpens the ethical tension between kṣatriya-dharma (fighting as duty) and the impulse to kill driven by rage.
Sañjaya reports that a warrior, unable to bear what he witnesses, angrily takes up a divine bow and, aiming at the death of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s son, proceeds to disable Duryodhana by cutting down his excellent bow with a sharp, winged arrow.