Shloka 49
Śiva’s Battlefield Manifestation and Vyāsa’s Śatarudrīya Exposition (शिवप्रादुर्भावः शतरुद्रीयव्याख्यानम्)
व्यधमत् कौरवीं सेनामासुरीं मघवानिव । महारथी धृष्टद्युम्नने तुरंत ही अपने बाणोंद्वारा द्रोणाचार्यको रोककर कौरव-सेनाका उसी प्रकार विनाश आरम्भ किया, जैसे इन्द्र आसुरी सेनाका संहार करते हैं ।। ४८ ई ।। वध्यमाने बले तस्मिंस्तव पुत्रस्य मारिष
sañjaya uvāca |
vyadhamat kauravīṃ senām āsurīṃ maghavān iva |
mahārathī dhṛṣṭadyumno drutam hi svaiḥ śaraiḥ droṇācāryaṃ nivārya kaurava-senāyāḥ tathā vināśam ārabdhavān, yathā indra āsurīṃ senāṃ saṃharati ||
Sanjaya said: The great chariot-warrior Dhrishtadyumna, swiftly checking Droṇācārya with his own arrows, began to crush the Kaurava host—like Maghavan (Indra) destroying the army of the Asuras. The verse frames Dhrishtadyumna’s assault not as mere rage but as a decisive act within the war’s moral tension: restraining a formidable teacher-warrior and turning the battle’s momentum toward the destruction of the opposing force.
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