Shloka 44
Bhīmasena’s Kalinga Engagement and the Approach of Bhīṣma (भीमसेन-कालिङ्ग-संग्रामः)
निष्कूजा: समपद्यन्त दृढसत्त्वा महाबला: । धैर्यको दृढ़तापूर्वक धारण किये रहनेवाले दूसरे महाबली वीर बाणोंके आघातसे पीड़ित हो क्लेश सहन करते हुए भी मौन ही रहते थे--अपनी वेदना प्रकाशित नहीं करते थे ।।
sañjaya uvāca | niṣkūjāḥ samapadyanta dṛḍhasattvā mahābalāḥ | anye ca virathāḥ śūrā ratham anyasya saṃyuge mahārāja |
サンジャヤは言った。「剛毅にして大力の勇士たちは、矢に射抜かれても声を上げず、痛みを表に出さず、沈黙のうちに打撃を耐え忍んだ。ほかには、戦車を砕かれた勇者たちが戦場のただ中で地に倒れ、他者の車を求めて叫んだが、救いが及ぶ前に大象の足に踏み潰された。血にまみれ、腫れ裂けたその屍は、咲き誇るパラーシャ（palāśa）の花のように見えた—美と惨禍とが冷酷に交差する光景であった。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights endurance and restraint under suffering as a warriorly virtue, while simultaneously exposing the brutal, indiscriminate destruction of war—suggesting that even dutiful courage (kṣatriya-dharma) unfolds within a tragic moral landscape.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield: some powerful fighters bear arrow-wounds without crying out, while others whose chariots are destroyed fall and seek another chariot but are trampled by elephants; their bloodied bodies are compared to palāśa blossoms.