Shloka 38
पज्चाशता पुनश्चाजौ त्रिंशता दशभिश्न ह | इसी प्रकार सात्यकिने भी युद्धस्थलमें पहले पचास, फिर तीस और फिर दस बाणोंद्वारा दुर्योधनको बींध डाला और उसे भी अपने बाणोंकी वर्षासे ढक दिया ।। सात्यकिं तु रणे राजन् प्रहसंस्तनयस्तव
pañcāśatā punaś cājau triṃśatā daśabhiś ca ha | satyakiṃ tu raṇe rājan prahasan tanayas tava ||
Sañjaya said: In that battle, he pierced him again—first with fifty arrows, then with thirty, and then with ten. And Sātyaki, laughing in the fight, showered your son with a dense rain of shafts, covering him over with arrows. The scene underscores the relentless momentum of war, where prowess and resolve drive warriors to press advantage without pause, even as the moral weight of violence hangs over the field.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the kṣatriya battlefield ethos—unyielding exertion and tactical pressure—while implicitly reminding the listener (the king) that war’s triumphs are inseparable from the moral and human cost borne by one’s own kin.
Sañjaya reports that Sātyaki strikes Duryodhana repeatedly with volleys of arrows—counted as fifty, then thirty, then ten—and then overwhelms him with a continuous shower, effectively covering him with shafts.