Shloka 8
Chapter 89: Bhīma dispatched to protect Ghaṭotkaca amid escalating engagements
निमेषार्थेन कौन्तेयं भीष्म: शान्तनवो युधि । अदृश्यं समरे चक्रे शरजालेन भागश:,शान्तनुनन्दन भीष्मने युद्धस्थलमें आधे निमेषमें ही पृथक्ू-पृथक् बाणोंका जाल-सा बिछाकर कुन्तीनन्दन युधिष्ठिरको अदृश्य कर दिया
nimeṣārthena kaunteyaṁ bhīṣmaḥ śāntanavo yudhi | adṛśyaṁ samare cakre śarajālena bhāgaśaḥ ||
संजय म्हणाला—रणांगणात शान्तनुनंदन भीष्माने अर्ध्या निमेषातच वेगवेगळ्या बाणांचे जाळे पसरवून कुंतीनंदन युधिष्ठिराला दृष्टीआड केले।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how, in war, technical mastery and relentless force can momentarily eclipse even the most dharmic figure; it cautions that righteousness alone does not remove vulnerability, and it frames battlefield success as a matter of skill, timing, and the harsh momentum of conflict.
Sañjaya reports that Bhīṣma, fighting on the Kaurava side, unleashes such a rapid and dense barrage of arrows that Yudhiṣṭhira (called Kaunteya) is effectively hidden from view—‘made invisible’—behind a partitioning net of shafts.