Mahabharata 7.127.15 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 127, Shloka 15
दुर्योधन-कर्ण-संवादः
Duryodhana–Karna Dialogue on Vyūha-bheda and Daiva
भरतनन्दन! ब्रह्मास्त्रका निवारण हो जानेपर बृहत्क्षत्रने सानपर चढ़ाकर तेज किये हुए सोनेके पंखोंसे युक्त साठ बाणोंद्वारा ब्राह्मण द्रोणाचार्यको वेध दिया ।।
bharatanandana! brahmāstrakā nivāraṇa ho jānepara bṛhatkṣatrane sānapara caḍhākara teja kiye hue soneke paṅkhoṃse yukta sāṭha bāṇoṃdvārā brāhmaṇa droṇācāryako vedha diyā || taṃ droṇo dvipadāṃ śreṣṭho nārācena samārpayat | sa tasya kavacaṃ bhintvā prāviśad dharaṇītalam ||
भरतनन्दन, ब्रह्मास्त्रनिवारणे कृते बृहत्क्षत्रः शिलाशितैः स्वर्णपुङ्खैः षष्ट्या शरैर्द्रोणं ब्राह्मणमविध्यत्। ततः स द्रोणो द्विपदां श्रेष्ठो नाराचेन तमर्पयत्; स तस्य कवचं भित्त्वा प्राविशद्धरणीतलम्।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when a catastrophic weapon is checked, the ethical burden of war remains: warriors revert to ordinary arms, and duty-driven retaliation continues. The verse highlights restraint (countering the Brahmāstra) alongside the inexorable momentum of combat where skill and obligation propel reciprocal violence.
After the Brahmāstra has been neutralized, Bṛhatkṣatra shoots sixty sharpened, gold-feathered arrows at Droṇa. Droṇa responds with a single nārāca that pierces Bṛhatkṣatra’s armor and passes into the ground.
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