Shloka 43
अभ्यघ्नन् निशितै: शस्त्रैर्जयगृद्धा: प्रहारिण: । क्रोधमें भरे हुए पाण्डव तथा कौरव विजयकी अभिलाषा लेकर एक-दूसरेको तीखे अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंद्वारा मारने लगे। वे सभी योद्धा प्रहार करनेमें कुशल थे || ४२ ई ।। स पाण्डवानां महतीं महेष्वासो महाद्युति:
abhyaghnan niśitaiḥ śastrair jayagṛddhāḥ prahāriṇaḥ | krodhena bhare huye pāṇḍav tathā kaurav vijayakī abhilāṣā lekar eka-dūsre ko tīkhe astra-śastroṃ dvārā mārne lage | te sarve yoddhā prahāra karne meṃ kuśal the ||
サンジャヤは言った。「勝利への渇望に駆られ、打撃に巧みな戦士であるパーンダヴァとカウラヴァは、鋭い武器をもって互いに襲いかかった。怒りに満ち、勝利を望んで、鋭利な矢や刃の武器で殺し合い、戦場の凄惨さはますます激しさを増した。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how craving for victory, when joined with anger, accelerates violence and mutual destruction. It implicitly warns that even skilled warriors, when driven by krodha and jaya-lobha, become instruments of escalating harm—an ethical tension repeatedly examined in the Mahābhārata’s war narrative.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield moment when both sides—the Pandavas and Kauravas—attack each other fiercely with sharpened weapons and missiles. The emphasis is on their battle-readiness and striking skill, and on the emotional fuel of wrath and the desire to win.