Shloka 10
द्रोण–धृष्टद्युम्नयुद्धवर्णनम्
Drona–Dhrishtadyumna Battle Description
निजघ्ने दशसाहस्रान् राम: परशुना तदा । न ह्मृष्यत ता वाचो यास्तैर्भूशमुदीरिता:
nijaghne daśasāhasrān rāmaḥ paraśunā tadā | na hṛṣyata tā vāco yās tair bhūśam udīritāḥ ||
ਤਦੋਂ ਰਾਮ (ਪਰਸ਼ੁਰਾਮ) ਨੇ ਪਰਸ਼ੂ ਨਾਲ ਦਸ ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਮਾਰ ਡਾਲਿਆ; ਪਰ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਉਠਾਈਆਂ ਉੱਚੀਆਂ ਚੀਖਾਂ-ਪੁਕਾਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਵੀ ਉਹ ਪ੍ਰਸੰਨ ਨਾ ਹੋਇਆ।
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even amid extreme violence, the text highlights a distinction between performing a grim task and taking pleasure in others’ suffering; the absence of exultation points to restraint and a hard, duty-bound detachment rather than cruelty for its own sake.
Nārada narrates that Paraśurāma, wielding his axe, kills ten thousand opponents; despite the magnitude of the slaughter and the loud cries of the fallen, he does not rejoice.