Shloka 46
Dhṛtarāṣṭra–Sañjaya-saṃvādaḥ; madhyāhna-saṅgrāma-pravṛttiḥ
Dhritarashtra–Sanjaya dialogue and the midday battle escalation
तमजेय राक्षसेन्द्रं संख्ये मघवता अपि । शैनेय: प्राणदज्जित्वा योधानां तव पश्यताम्,जिसे इन्द्र भी युद्धमें हहा नहीं सकते थे, उसी राक्षसराज अलम्बुषको आपके योद्धाओंके देखते-देखते परास्त करके सात्यकि सिंहनाद करने लगे
tam ajeyaṁ rākṣasendraṁ saṅkhye maghavatā api | śaineyaḥ prāṇadad jitvā yodhānāṁ tava paśyatām ||
Sañjaya said: Śaineya (Sātyaki), before the very eyes of your warriors, overcame in battle that king of Rākṣasas—Alambuṣa—who was deemed unconquerable even by Maghavat (Indra). Having won at the risk of his very life, Sātyaki then roared his lion-like cry, proclaiming his valor.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights kṣātra-dharma in its battlefield form: steadfast courage and skill must be joined with readiness to risk one’s life for one’s cause. It also shows how public victory and the lion-roar function ethically and socially as affirmation of valor and as morale for one’s allies.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Sātyaki (Śaineya) defeats the formidable Rākṣasa-king Alambuṣa—so mighty that even Indra is invoked as a benchmark of power—doing so in full view of the Kaurava fighters, and then gives a triumphant lion-like roar.