Shloka 5
रुरोध सर्वत:ः पार्थ: शरै: कनकभूषणै: । शलभोंकी श्रेणीके समान अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंकी उस वर्षाको अर्जुनने स्वर्णभूषित बाणोंद्वारा सब ओरसे रोक दिया ।। तत्र तल्लाघवं दृष्टवा बीभत्सोरतिमानुषम्,राजेन्द्र! अर्जुनकी वह अलौकिक फुर्ती देख देवता, दानव, गन्धर्व, पिशाच, नाग तथा राक्षस साधु-साधु (वाह-वाह) कहकर उनकी प्रशंसा करने लगे
sañjaya uvāca |
rurodha sarvataḥ pārthaḥ śaraiḥ kanakabhūṣaṇaiḥ |
tatra tallāghavaṁ dṛṣṭvā bībhatsor atimānuṣam |
rājendra devatā dānavā gandharvāḥ piśācā nāgā rākṣasāś ca sādhv iti sādhv iti praśaśaṁsuḥ ||
Sañjaya berkata: Ketika itu Pārtha (Arjuna), dengan anak panah berhias emas, menahan hujan senjata itu dari segala arah. Wahai raja yang utama, melihat kelincahan dan kemahiran Bībhatsu (Arjuna) yang melampaui insan, para dewa, Dānava, Gandharva, Piśāca, Nāga dan Rākṣasa memujinya sambil berseru, “Syabas! Syabas!”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Excellence in action (here, martial skill) becomes ethically meaningful when governed by dharma: disciplined mastery restrains chaos, protects one’s side, and earns recognition even from higher orders of beings—yet it also implies responsibility in how power is used.
Arjuna counters and stops a dense ‘rain’ of weapons coming from all directions by shooting gold-adorned arrows, displaying extraordinary speed and precision; witnessing this, various classes of celestial and other beings acclaim him with cries of “sādhu, sādhu.”