Shloka 77
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 47 — Arjuna’s Deterrent Declaration
Sañjaya’s Report
अयं सम युद्धे मन्यते<न्यैरजेयं तमेकलव्यं नाम निषादराजम् | वेगेनैव शैलमभिहत्य जम्भ: शेते स कृष्णेन हत: परासु:
ayaṁ samyuddhe manyate 'nyair ajeyaṁ tam ekalavyaṁ nāma niṣādarājam | vegenaiva śailam abhihatya jambhaḥ śete sa kṛṣṇena hataḥ parāsuḥ ||
サンジャヤは言った。「ニシャーダ族の王エーカラヴヤ——他の者には戦場で不敗と見なされた者——は、たびたび世尊シュリー・クリシュナに戦いを挑まれていた。だが今や彼は、クリシュナの手に討たれて命を失い、戦場に横たわっている。あたかも、魔ジャムバが自らの勢いのまま山に激突し、息絶えて死の眠りに沈んだように。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Invincibility is conditional and can collapse through overconfidence or destiny; the verse underscores the inevitability of death in war and the decisive force of Kṛṣṇa’s agency, contrasting human pride with a cautionary example (Jambha) who perishes by his own reckless momentum.
Sañjaya reports that Ekalavya, famed as unconquerable, has been slain by Kṛṣṇa and now lies dead on the battlefield. To intensify the image, he compares Ekalavya’s fall to the demon Jambha, who died after violently crashing into a mountain.