Shloka 27
हत्वा बहुविधा: सेना: पाण्डूनां युद्धदुर्मदः । कथंचित् संकटान्मुक्तो मत्तद्विरदविक्रम:,मतवाले हाथीके समान पराक्रमी रणदुर्मद अश्वत्थामा पाण्डवोंकी विविध सेनाओंका संहार करके किसी प्रकार उस युद्ध-संकटसे मुक्त हुआ था
hatvā bahuvidhāḥ senāḥ pāṇḍūnāṃ yuddha-durmadaḥ | kathaṃcit saṅkaṭān mukto matta-dvirada-vikramaḥ ||
सञ्जय उवाच—पाण्डूनां बहुविधाः सेनाः हत्वा युद्धदुर्मदः। मत्तद्विरदविक्रमः अश्वत्थामा कथञ्चित् संकटान्मुक्तोऽभवत्।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how war amplifies destructive pride and frenzy (yuddha-durmada), and how sheer prowess can enable survival—yet it implicitly raises ethical unease about glory built upon slaughter.
Sañjaya reports that Aśvatthāmā has killed many divisions of the Pāṇḍava forces and, despite the surrounding danger, has managed to extricate himself from the immediate crisis of battle.