Shloka 108
स कीर्यमाणो विशिखै: कर्णचापच्युतै: शरै: । नागराडिव दुष्प्रेक्ष्यस्तत्रैवान्तरधीयत,नागराजके समान घटोत्कचकी ओर देखना कठिन हो रहा था। वह कर्णके धनुषसे छूटे हुए शिखाहीन बाणोंद्वारा आच्छादित हो वहीं अन्तर्धान हो गया
sa kīryamāṇo viśikhaiḥ karṇacāpacyutaiḥ śaraiḥ | nāgarāḍ iva duṣprekṣyas tatraivāntaradhīyata ||
ਕਰਨ ਦੇ ਧਨੁਸ਼ ਤੋਂ ਛੁੱਟੇ ਸ਼ਿਖਾ-ਰਹਿਤ ਤੀਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਢੱਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਘਟੋਤਕਚ ਨਾਗਰਾਜ ਵਾਂਗ ਦੇਖਣ ਨੂੰ ਔਖਾ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਓਥੇ ਹੀ ਰਣਭੂਮੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how the violence of war can overwhelm the senses and make even great figures ‘unseeable’; it also suggests the fragility of visibility and certainty amid conflict, where power and illusion can abruptly alter what is perceived as real.
Sañjaya describes a warrior being completely covered by Karṇa’s headless arrows, becoming difficult to look at like a Nāga-king, and then disappearing on the spot—indicating a sudden vanishing from sight amid the missile-storm.