Shloka 493
Adhyāya 141 — Night duels: Śaineya and Bhūriśravas; Droṇi and Ghaṭotkaca; Bhīma and Duryodhana
सुवर्णविकृतान् क्रुद्ध: प्राहिणोद् वधकाड्क्षया । कर्णने कुपित होकर भीमसेनके वधकी इच्छासे सुनारके माँजे हुए सुवर्णभूषित तीखे बाणोंका प्रहार किया
sañjaya uvāca | suvarṇa-vikṛtān kruddhaḥ prāhiṇod vadhakāṅkṣayā |
Sañjaya dit : «Hors de lui de colère et avide de donner la mort, Karṇa décocha une volée de flèches acérées—ornées d’or et finement ouvragées—contre Bhīmasena.»
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how anger (krodha) and the craving to kill can dominate judgment in war, converting excellence in arms and ornamentation into tools of destruction; it implicitly warns that inner passions shape outward action and its moral weight.
Sañjaya reports that Karṇa, furious, shoots finely crafted, gold-adorned, sharp arrows at Bhīmasena with the explicit intention of killing him, intensifying the duel’s lethality.