Shloka 28
कर्णार्जुनयुद्ध-प्रवृत्तिः
Renewal of the Karṇa–Arjuna Engagement at Day’s End
ते पाण्डुयोधाम्बुधरै: शत्रुद्विरदपर्वता: । बाणवर्ष्िता: पेतुर्वज़वर्षरिवाचला:
te pāṇḍu-yodhāmbudharaiḥ śatru-dvirada-parvatāḥ | bāṇa-varṣitāḥ petur vajra-varṣa-rivācalāḥ ||
サञ्जयは語った。パーンダヴァの戦士たちが雨雲のごとく放つ矢の驟雨に打たれ、敵の象のごとき勇将、山のようにそびえる者どもは倒れた。まるで金剛の雷霆が降り注いで山々が崩れ落ちるかのように。この詩句は宇宙的な比喩で戦の暴威を描き、武の力が解き放たれるとき最強すら覆し、戦は誇り高き強さを一瞬で滅びへと変えることを示す。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Through the simile of thunderbolts felling mountains, the verse highlights the fragility of worldly might: even those who seem unshakable can be brought down when destructive forces are unleashed. It implicitly cautions that war magnifies power into catastrophe, turning pride and strength into sudden downfall.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield where Pāṇḍava fighters, compared to rainclouds, pour down volleys of arrows. The enemy’s great champions—likened to elephant-mountains—are struck by this arrow-rain and collapse, as though mountains were shattered by a storm of Indra’s thunderbolts.