Shloka 13
Śalya-parva Adhyāya 26 — Duryodhana’s remnant formation and rapid engagements
जयत्सेनं ततो विद्धवा नाराचेन हसन्निव
sañjaya uvāca |
jayat-senaṃ tato viddhvā nārācena hasann iva |
śrutārvā tu tato bhīmaṃ kruddho vivyādha māriṣa |
śatena gṛdhravājānāṃ śarāṇāṃ nataparvaṇām ||
तब नाराच बाण से जयत्सेन को मानो हँसते हुए बेधकर गिरा दिया। उसके बाद, मारिष! क्रोध से भरे श्रुतर्वा ने गीध के पंखों जैसे परों वाले और झुकी हुई गाँठों वाले सौ बाणों से भीम को बींध डाला।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how, in the battlefield setting of kṣatriya-dharma, action is driven by skill and by powerful emotions like anger; it implicitly warns that wrath accelerates cycles of retaliation, making violence self-propagating even when framed as duty.
A warrior strikes down Jayatsena with a nārāca arrow; immediately afterward, Śrutārvā—angered—responds by shooting Bhīmasena with a hundred specially described arrows.