Shloka 15
Daśame’hani Bhīṣma-yuddham — Śikhaṇḍī-rakṣaṇa, Arjuna-prabhāva, Duryodhana-āśraya-vākyam
जैसे प्रलयकालमें साक्षात् काल सबको मार डालता है, उसी प्रकार अर्जुनकी मार खाकर त्रिगर्तदेशीय सैनिक मरनेका निश्चय करके पुनः उन्हींपर टूट पड़े ।।
sañjaya uvāca | yathā pralayakāle sākṣāt kālaḥ sarvān mārayati tathā arjunena nihanyamānās trigartadeśīyā yodhā mṛtyuṃ niścitya punar evārjunasyaiva samīpaṃ pratyapatanta | mumucuḥ śaravṛṣṭiṃ ca pāṇḍavasya rathaṃ prati | śaravṛṣṭiṃ tatas tāṃ tu śaravarṣaḥ samantataḥ ||
サンジャヤは言った――滅びの時に「時」そのものが万有を打ち倒すように、トリガルタの兵らはアルジュナに斬り伏せられながらも死を決し、再び彼へと襲いかかった。彼らはパーンダヴァの戦車めがけて矢の雨を放ったが、その矢雨はたちまち四方から、アルジュナの放つ矢の嵐によって迎え撃たれた。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames battlefield violence through the image of Kāla (Time/Death): individual prowess and collective courage still move within an overpowering moral-cosmic order. It highlights the Kshatriya ideal of steadfast resolve—even to death—while also reminding that destruction, once unleashed, can become impersonal and inevitable like Time.
After suffering heavy losses at Arjuna’s hands, the Trigarta fighters decide on a desperate, death-bound charge. They pour a dense arrow-shower at Arjuna’s chariot, and Arjuna answers with an even more encompassing counter-rain of arrows from all directions.