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 dit : Bhīmasena, le petit-fils de Śini (Sātyaki), Śikhaṇḍī, Janamejaya, le puissant Dhṛṣṭadyumna et tous les Prabhadrakas — ces guerriers pareils à des lions, exaltés par l’espoir de la victoire et embrasés de colère, fondirent de toutes parts sur ton armée, résolus à l’anéantir.
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.