Shloka 346
चिक्षेप परमक्रुद्धों जिघांसु: पाण्डुनन्दनम् । उस अस्त्रके नष्ट हो जानेपर द्रोणाचार्यने युधिष्ठिरपर क्रमश: वारुण, याम्य, आग्नेय, त्वाष्ट और सावित्र नामक दिव्यास्त्र चलाया; क्योंकि वे अत्यन्त कुपित होकर पाण्डुनन्दन युधिष्ठिरको मार डालना चाहते थे
cikṣepa paramakruddho jighāṃsuḥ pāṇḍunandanam | tasmin astre naṣṭe (vinaṣṭe) sati droṇācāryo yudhiṣṭhiram prati krameṇa vāruṇaṃ yāmyaṃ āgneyaṃ tvāṣṭraṃ sāvitram iti divyāstrāṇi mumoca; sa hi atīva kupitaḥ san pāṇḍunandanaṃ yudhiṣṭhiraṃ hantum aicchat |
Sañjaya said: Burning with extreme wrath and intent on killing the son of Pāṇḍu, Droṇācārya hurled his weapon. When that missile was destroyed, Drona—driven by anger and the grim resolve to slay Yudhiṣṭhira—then, one after another, unleashed the divine missiles named Vāruṇa, Yāmya, Āgneya, Tvāṣṭra, and Sāvitra against him. The scene underscores how, in the heat of war, even a revered teacher can be swept into a perilous breach of restraint, turning sacred knowledge into instruments of personal fury.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights the ethical danger of anger (krodha) in warfare: even a venerable teacher can misuse sacred, divinely empowered knowledge when driven by personal fury, showing how inner restraint is integral to dharma.
Droṇa, enraged and determined to kill Yudhiṣṭhira, launches a missile; when it is neutralized, he escalates by releasing a sequence of powerful divine astras—Vāruṇa, Yāmya, Āgneya, Tvāṣṭra, and Sāvitra—directed at Yudhiṣṭhira.