Shloka 25
भीमसेन-धृष्टद्युम्नयोर्वाक्यं
Bhīmasena and Dhṛṣṭadyumna’s Speeches on Kṣātra-Dharma
पतन््तीमुपरि क्ुद्धो द्रौणिरव्यथितेन्द्रिय: । सुदुःसहां शरैघरिदिव्यास्त्रप्रतिमन्त्रिते:
patantīm upari kruddho drauṇir avyathitendriyaḥ | suduḥsahāṃ śaraiḥ ghoraṃ divyāstrapratimantrite ||
पतन्तीमुपरि क्रुद्धो द्रौणिरव्यथितेन्द्रियः। सुदुःसहां शरैर्घोरां दिव्यास्त्रप्रतिमन्त्रितैः॥
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the moral danger of anger combined with technical and sacred power: when a warrior’s steadiness and knowledge of divine weapon-mantras are driven by wrath, violence becomes harder to restrain, intensifying the ethical burden to act within dharma rather than mere capability.
Sañjaya describes Aśvatthāman (Droṇa’s son), furious yet composed in his faculties, launching from above a terrifying, nearly unbearable barrage of arrows, made more formidable through the use of divine-weapon counter-mantras.