Shloka 17

भीष्मस्य दुर्योधनं प्रति उपालम्भः

Bhīṣma’s Reproof to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

अपश्याम महाराज वध्यमानान्‌ निशाचरै: | महाराज! निशाचरोंद्वारा मारे जानेवाले गजराजोंको हमने देखा था। उनके कुम्भस्थल फट गये थे

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O King, we saw the lords of elephants being slain by the night-roaming rākṣasas. Their temples were split, their bodies drained of blood, their limbs hewn apart. And when the elephant-warriors were thus broken and destroyed, Duryodhana, mastered by wrath, cast off attachment to his own life and charged upon those rākṣasas.”

Speaker

संजय उवाच