Shloka 13
योद्धालोग युद्धमें किसी तरह चैन न पाकर युधिष्छिरकी सेनामें घुसने लगे। उन्हें तितर- बितर और युद्धसे विमुख हुआ देख घटोत्कचको बड़ा रोष हुआ ।। आस्थाय तं काउचनरत्नचित्रं रथोत्तमं सिंहवत् संननाद । वैकर्तनं कर्णमुपेत्य चापि विव्याध वज़प्रतिमै: पृषत्कै:,वह सुवर्ण एवं रत्नोंसे जटित होनेके कारण विचित्र शोभायुक्त उत्तम रथपर आरूढ़ हो सिंहके समान गर्जना करने लगा और वैकर्तन कर्णके पास जाकर उसे वच्ञतुल्य बाणोंद्वारा बींधने लगा
yoddhālog yuddheṁ kisī tarah caina na pākar yudhiṣṭhirakī senāmeṁ ghusne lage | tān titar-bitarān yuddhase vimukhān dṛṣṭvā ghaṭotkaco mahān roṣam āpede || āsthāya taṁ kāñcanaratnacitraṁ rathottamaṁ siṁhavat saṁnanāda | vaikartanaṁ karṇam upetya cāpi vivyādha vajrapratimaiḥ pṛṣatkaiḥ ||
Sanjaya said: The warriors, finding no ease in the press of battle, began to force their way into Yudhiṣṭhira’s army. Seeing them scattered and turning away from the fight, Ghaṭotkaca was seized by fierce wrath. Mounting his splendid chariot, adorned with gold and gems, he roared like a lion; then, drawing near to Karṇa (Vaikartana), he pierced him with arrows as hard and dreadful as thunderbolts. The passage highlights how fear and disorder in war provoke retaliatory fury, and how martial prowess is portrayed as both a response to collapsing morale and a driver of escalating violence.
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