Shloka 473
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 95 — Sātyaki’s Breakthrough and the Routing of Allied Contingents
म्लेच्छानशातयत् सर्वान् समेतानस्त्रतेजसा । बाणोंद्वारा उस विशाल सेनापर बादलोंकी छाया-सी करके अर्जुनने अपने अस्त्रके तेजसे मुण्डित, अर्धमुण्डित, जटाधारी, अपवित्र तथा दाढ़ीभरे मुखवाले उन समस्त म्लेच्छोंका, जो वहाँ एकत्र थे, संहार कर डाला
sañjaya uvāca | mlecchān aśātayat sarvān sametān astratejasā |
Sañjaya said: With the blazing power of his weapons, Arjuna cut down all the Mleccha warriors who had gathered there. Casting, as it were, a cloud-like shadow over that vast host with a dense shower of arrows, he destroyed those impure fighters—shaven, half-shaven, matted-haired, and with bearded faces—thus depicting the grim, ethically fraught necessity of slaughter in the press of war.
संजय उवाच