Shloka 18
कर्णभीमसमागमः | Karṇa–Bhīma Encounter
माद्रीपुत्रो तथा शूरौ येन जित्वा महारणे
mādrīputro tathā śūrau yena jitvā mahāraṇe
Sañjaya berkata: “Dan putra Mādrī—bersama sang kesatria gagah—yang olehnya, dalam pertempuran besar itu, kemenangan diraih …”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line foregrounds how outcomes in war are attributed to specific agents—“by whom victory was won”—highlighting the Mahābhārata’s ethical tension between personal valor (śaurya) and the larger forces shaping victory in a dharmic conflict.
Sañjaya is recounting battlefield events and begins to identify key warriors—mentioning Mādrī’s son and another heroic fighter—through whom success was achieved in the great combat; the verse is syntactically incomplete here and likely continues in the next pāda/verse.