Shloka 15
सौप्तिकपर्व — धृष्टद्युम्नसारथिवृत्तान्तः
Report of the Night Raid and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Lament
कर्णिनालीकरदंष्टस्य खड्गजिह्डस्य संयुगे । चापव्यात्तस्य रौद्रस्य ज्यातलस्वननादिन:,'क्रोधमें भरा हुआ कर्ण मनुष्योंमें सिंहंके समान था। कर्णि और नालीक नामक बाण उसकी दाँढ़ें तथा युद्धमें उठी हुई तलवार उसकी जिह्ला थी। धनुषका खींचना ही उसका मुँह फैलाना था। प्रत्यंचाकी टंकार ही उसके लिये दहाड़नेके समान थी। युद्धोंमें कभी पीठ न दिखानेवाले उस भयंकर पुरुषसिंहके हाथसे जो जीवित छूट गये, वे ही ये मेरे सगे-सम्बन्धी अपनी असावधानीके कारण मार डाले गये हैं
karṇinālīkaradaṁṣṭasya khaḍgajihvasya saṁyuge | cāpavyāttasya raudrasya jyātalasvananādinaḥ ||
Sūta said: In battle he was a terrifying, wrath-filled lion among men. The Karṇin and Nālīka arrows were his fangs; the sword raised in combat was his tongue. The drawing of his bow was as though his mouth gaped wide, and the twang of the bowstring was like his roar. Those who escaped alive from the hands of that dreadful man-lion—who never turned his back in war—are precisely these, my own kinsmen, who have now been slain because of their heedlessness.
सूत उवाच