Shloka 34
Bhagadatta’s Advance, the Saṃśaptaka Challenge, and Arjuna’s Counterstrike (द्रोणपर्व, अध्याय २६)
तदद्भुतमपश्याम भगदत्तस्य संयुगे
tad adbhutam apaśyāma bhagadattasya saṁyuge
सञ्जय उवाच—तस्मिन् संग्रामे भगदत्तस्य यदद्भुतं कर्मापश्याम, तत् रणकोलाहलेऽपि वीरान् अपि विस्मयमावहद्।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line highlights how, even within a destructive war, extraordinary human capability can evoke wonder; it implicitly points to the Mahābhārata’s recurring tension between admiration for valor (kṣātra-tejas) and the sobering ethical cost of violence.
Sañjaya, reporting the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, remarks that he and others witnessed something astonishing in the combat involving Bhagadatta, signaling a notable feat or turn of action centered on that warrior.