Shloka 34
Bhagadatta’s Advance, the Saṃśaptaka Challenge, and Arjuna’s Counterstrike (द्रोणपर्व, अध्याय २६)
तदद्भुतमपश्याम भगदत्तस्य संयुगे
tad adbhutam apaśyāma bhagadattasya saṁyuge
Sañjaya berkata—dalam pertempuran itu kami menyaksikan suatu perbuatan yang sungguh menakjubkan dari Bhagadatta; di tengah hiruk-pikuk perang pun, itu adalah pertunjukan kepahlawanan yang luar biasa, membangkitkan takjub bahkan pada para kesatria yang telah kenyang pengalaman.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line highlights how, even within a destructive war, extraordinary human capability can evoke wonder; it implicitly points to the Mahābhārata’s recurring tension between admiration for valor (kṣātra-tejas) and the sobering ethical cost of violence.
Sañjaya, reporting the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, remarks that he and others witnessed something astonishing in the combat involving Bhagadatta, signaling a notable feat or turn of action centered on that warrior.