Shloka 10
द्रोण–धृष्टद्युम्नयुद्धवर्णनम्
Drona–Dhrishtadyumna Battle Description
निजघ्ने दशसाहस्रान् राम: परशुना तदा । न ह्मृष्यत ता वाचो यास्तैर्भूशमुदीरिता:
nijaghne daśasāhasrān rāmaḥ paraśunā tadā | na hṛṣyata tā vāco yās tair bhūśam udīritāḥ ||
तब राम (परशुराम) ने परशु से दस सहस्र का संहार किया; परंतु उनके द्वारा उठाई गई ऊँची चीत्कार-ध्वनियों से भी वह हर्षित न हुआ।
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even amid extreme violence, the text highlights a distinction between performing a grim task and taking pleasure in others’ suffering; the absence of exultation points to restraint and a hard, duty-bound detachment rather than cruelty for its own sake.
Nārada narrates that Paraśurāma, wielding his axe, kills ten thousand opponents; despite the magnitude of the slaughter and the loud cries of the fallen, he does not rejoice.