Shloka 14
विव्यधु: सोमकास्तूर्ण समन्ताच्छरवृष्टिभि: । समरांगणमें द्रोणाचार्यको पाण्डव-सेनाका संहार करते देख सोमकोंने चारों ओरसे बाणोंकी वर्षा करके उन्हें तुरंत घायल कर दिया ।। १३ ह ।। तत्र द्रोणो5हरत् प्राणान् क्षत्रियाणां विशाम्पते
vivyadhuḥ somakās tūrṇaṃ samantāc charavṛṣṭibhiḥ | tatra droṇo 'harat prāṇān kṣatriyāṇāṃ viśāmpate ||
サンジャヤは言った。ソーマカたちは四方より矢の雨を浴びせ、たちまちに打ちかかった。そこではドローナがクシャトリヤたちの命を奪っていた、民の主よ――戦の陰惨な推進力の姿である。戦場の武勇と義務は、容赦なき殺戮へと変じてゆく。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the harsh ethical tension of kṣatriya-dharma: even when framed as duty and skill, war rapidly becomes a cycle of retaliation and mass killing, revealing the moral cost behind martial glory.
Seeing Droṇa cutting down warriors, the Somakas counterattack immediately, surrounding him and wounding him with concentrated volleys of arrows, while Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Droṇa is taking the lives of many kṣatriyas.