Shloka 7
अध्याय ६० — कर्णस्य पाञ्चाल-सोमक-निग्रहः
Karna’s Suppression of the Panchala–Somaka Forces
भीमसेन: शिनेर्नप्ता शिखण्डी जनमेजय: । धृष्टय्युम्नश्व॒ बलवान् सर्वे चापि प्रभद्रका:
sañjaya uvāca | bhīmasenaḥ śiner naptā śikhaṇḍī janamejayaḥ | dhṛṣṭadyumnaś ca balavān sarve cāpi prabhadrakāḥ ||
Sañjaya said: Bhīmasena, the grandson of Śini (Sātyaki), Śikhaṇḍī, Janamejaya, the mighty Dhṛṣṭadyumna, and all the Prabhadrakas—these lion-like warriors, exulting in the prospect of victory and inflamed with wrath, surged from every side upon your army, intent on destroying it.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how victory-confidence and anger can drive warriors into uncompromising violence. In the Mahābhārata’s ethical frame, this raises the tension between kṣatriya duty to fight and the moral peril of being ruled by wrath, where the aim shifts from defense or justice to annihilation.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that leading Pāṇḍava-side fighters—Bhīma, Sātyaki, Śikhaṇḍī, Janamejaya, Dhṛṣṭadyumna, and the Prabhadrakas—rush in from all directions and fall upon the Kaurava forces, eager to destroy them and energized by battle-fury.