Shloka 7
आर्जुनिस्तु हयांस्तस्य चतुर्भिनिशितै: शरै: | प्रेषयामास संक़ुद्धो यमस्य सदन प्रति,अर्जुनकुमार श्रुतकीर्तिने अत्यन्त कुपित हो चार तीखे बाणोंद्वारा शलके चारों घोड़ोंको यमलोक भेज दिया
ārjunis tu hayāṁs tasya caturbhir niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ | preṣayāmāsa saṁkruddho yamasya sadanaṁ prati ||
Sañjaya said: Arjuni (Śrutakīrti), inflamed with wrath, struck down his opponent’s four horses with four razor-sharp arrows, sending them to Yama’s abode—an image of swift, lethal retribution amid the ruthless ethics of battlefield necessity.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how anger (krodha) rapidly turns skill into destruction; yet within the Mahābhārata’s war setting it also reflects kṣatriya-dharma, where disabling an enemy’s mobility (killing the horses) is a decisive, tactical act—showing the tension between moral restraint and battlefield necessity.
Sañjaya reports that Arjuna’s son Śrutakīrti, furious in combat, shoots four sharp arrows and kills the opponent’s four horses, poetically described as sending them to Yama’s dwelling (death).