Shloka 26
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 125: Duryodhana’s despair and vow after Jayadratha’s fall (जयद्रथवधे दुर्योधनविलापः)
तां तु शक्ति तदा घोरां तव पुत्रस्य सात्यकि:
tāṃ tu śaktiṃ tadā ghorāṃ tava putrasya sātyakiḥ
Sañjaya dit : Alors Sātyaki fit face à cette redoutable arme, la lance-śakti, qui appartenait à ton fils—instant de sombre présage sur le champ de bataille, où la force meurtrière et la haine personnelle se rejoignent, éprouvant la résolution et le devoir du guerrier au milieu d’une violence grandissante.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how war intensifies into exchanges of fearsome weapons, where warriors must meet danger with steadiness and skill; it implicitly raises the ethical tension between duty in battle (kṣatriya-dharma) and the destructive escalation that such duty can entail.
Sañjaya reports that Sātyaki faces a dreadful spear-weapon associated with Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s son. The line sets up a critical combat moment, emphasizing the weapon’s terror and the immediacy of the confrontation.