युधिष्ठिरस्य कृष्णार्जुनादि-समाश्वासनम्
Yudhiṣṭhira’s reassurance and praise of Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna, Bhīma, and Sātyaki
ततः शरमयं जाल द्रोणस्तेषामवासृजत् । ते हन्यमाना द्रोणस्थ शरैराकर्णचोदितै:
tataḥ śaramayaṁ jālaṁ droṇas teṣām avāsṛjat | te hanyamānā droṇastha-śarair ākarṇacoditaiḥ ||
Sañjaya said: Then Droṇa released against them a net-like shower of arrows. Struck down as they were by the arrows shot from Droṇa’s bow—drawn back to the ear—they were cut and overwhelmed in the press of battle, showing how relentless martial skill, when unrestrained by compassion, turns the field into a place of swift and indiscriminate destruction.
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