Mahabharata 6.91.23 — Bhishma Parva, Adhyaya 91, Shloka 23
Bhagadattā’s Deployment Against Ghaṭotkaca; Elephant-Corps Escalation
अथापरेण भल््लेन कुण्डधारं महारथम् | प्राहिणोन्मृत्युलोकाय सर्वलोकस्य पश्यत:
sañjaya uvāca |
athāpareṇa bhallena kuṇḍadhāraṃ mahāratham |
prāhiṇon mṛtyulokāya sarvalokasya paśyataḥ ||
സഞ്ജയൻ പറഞ്ഞു—പിന്നീട് മറ്റൊരു ഭല്ലംകൊണ്ട്, എല്ലാവരും കാണുന്നവണ്ണം, ഭീമസേനൻ മഹാരഥൻ കുണ്ഡധാരനെ മൃത്യുലോകത്തിലേക്ക് അയച്ചു।
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The verse highlights the uncompromising reality of dharma in war: a kṣatriya battle is decisive and public, where skill and fate culminate in death, reminding the listener of the grave moral weight and cost of violence even amid sanctioned duty.
Sañjaya narrates that a great warrior named Kuṇḍadhāra is struck down by another sharp arrow and is ‘sent to mṛtyuloka’—killed—before everyone watching on the battlefield.
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