Shloka 35
अभिद्र॒त्य च विंशत्या क्षुद्रकाणां नरर्षभ । पज्चभिश्चातिवेगेन विव्याध पुरुषर्षभ:,नरश्रेष्ठ। निकट जाकर पुरुषप्रवर अश्रत्थामाने धृष्टद्युम्नको पहले क्षुद्रक नामवाले बीस बाण मारे। फिर अत्यन्त वेगसे पाँच बाणोंका प्रहार करके उन्हें घायल कर दिया
abhidratya ca viṁśatyā kṣudrakāṇāṁ nararṣabha | pañcabhiś cātivegena vivyādha puruṣarṣabhaḥ ||
Sañjaya said: Closing in at close range, Aśvatthāmā—foremost among men—first struck Dhṛṣṭadyumna with twenty arrows known as ‘kṣudraka’. Then, with five more shafts loosed at tremendous speed, he pierced him again, wounding him severely. The scene underscores the relentless escalation of violence on the battlefield, where prowess and fury drive action even as the moral weight of slaughter continues to accumulate.
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