Shloka 28
Somadatta’s Kṣātra-Dharma Accusation; Night Combat, Māyā, and the Fall of Ghaṭotkaca
Droṇa-parva, Adhyāya 131
तब भीमसेनको बड़ा क्रोध हुआ। उन्होंने वेगपूर्वक सूतपुत्रकी छातीमें झुकी हुई गाँठवाले तीन बाण धँसा दिये ।। तै: कर्णोडराजत शरैरुरोर्म ध्यगतैस्तदा । महीधर इवोदग्रस्त्रिशुड्रो भरतर्षभ,भरतश्रेष्ठ) ठीक छातीके बीचमें गड़े हुए उन बाणोंद्वारा कर्ण तीन शिखरोंवाले ऊँचे पर्वतके समान सुशोभित हुआ
sañjaya uvāca | tataḥ bhīmasenasya mahān krodho 'bhavat | sa vegapūrvakaṁ sūtaputrasya vakṣasi namrāgraparvaṇas trīn śarān nyadhāt || taiḥ karṇo 'drajata śarair uror madhyagatais tadā | mahīdhara ivodagraḥ triśṛṅgo bharatarṣabha ||
Sanjaya said: Then Bhimasena was seized by a fierce wrath. With a sudden surge of speed he drove three arrows—whose tips were bent at the knot—into the chest of Karna, the son of a charioteer. With those arrows fixed in the very middle of his breast, Karna shone, O bull among the Bharatas, like a lofty mountain rising with three peaks. The scene underscores how anger fuels escalation in war, yet even amid violence the epic frames the warriors’ endurance and the grim splendor of battlefield valor.
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