Shloka 67
कर्ण ससूतं सरथं सकेतु- मदृश्यमण्जोगतिभश्ि: प्रचक्रे । तदनन्तर सवारोंसहित हजारों घोड़ों और सहस््रों पैदल वीरोंको मारकर रथ, सारथि और ध्वजसहित कर्णको भी शीघ्रगामी बाणोंद्वारा ढककर अदृश्य कर दिया ।। अथाक्रोशन् कुरवो वध्यमाना धनंजयेनाधिरथिं समन्तात्
sañjaya uvāca |
karṇaṃ sasūtaṃ sarathaṃ saketuṃ adṛśyam añjogatibhiḥ pracakre |
tad-anantaraṃ savāroṃsahitaṃ sahasrāṇi aśvān sahasrāṇi ca padātivīrān hatvā ratha-sārathi-dhvajasahitaṃ karṇam api śīghragāmibhir bāṇair dhakvā adṛśyaṃ cakāra ||
athākrośan kuravo vadhyamānā dhanañjayenādhirathiṃ samantāt ||
Sañjaya said: Arjuna so covered Karṇa—together with his charioteer, chariot, and banner—with swift-flying arrows that he made him vanish from sight. Before that, he struck down thousands of horsemen with their mounts and thousands of foot-soldiers. As Karṇa’s forces were being cut down on every side by Dhanañjaya, the Kauravas cried out in distress. The scene underscores the grim ethics of battlefield duty: prowess is exercised without hesitation, yet the suffering of the many becomes the immediate moral weight of war.
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